[Beowulf] Jeff Squayres MPI proposals

[John Hearns]

Indeed.  Some interesting news here:

http://www.enterprisetech.com/2016/03/04/docker-acquires-apache-aurora-founders/

Us old style guys are going to have our lunch money stolen by young
upstarts. Or is that startups?
Seriously - these guys know how to keep things running at scale and how to
tolerate failures.





On 3 March 2016 at 23:30, Christopher Samuel <samuel at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> On 04/03/16 06:40, Douglas Eadline wrote:
>
> > Yes, failure needs to be option.
>
> The Slurm folks have been working on failure management support for a
> little while, the idea being you can have a pool of spare nodes to pick
> from (or alternatively bargain with a scheduler for a node that's
> currently busy to come free later on and then add it to the job,
> potentially extending the walltime to make up for the shortfall).
>
> A better description from someone with higher caffeination is here:
>
> http://slurm.schedmd.com/nonstop.html
>
> All the best,
> Chris
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