alpha clustering

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello,
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:25:29AM -0500, Arkadiy Chapkis - Arc wrote:
>   Is this the one here:
> http://wwws.sun.com/software/gridware/index.html
> ?

This is IIRC the official version with support and things like that. 

>   Does it come in source code version? Because I don't see alpha platform is being supported. Another thing - I
> couldn't find a free download option for it, and the cost is relatively high ($10K for 50 CPUs). Am I missing
> something?

http://gridengine.sunsource.net/

There you can download the source. The target "alinux" is the one you
want (not glinux for x86-machines). It works flawlessly on alpha as
well as in mixed environments, even when it was still Codine DQS. It
is *very* powerfull, suspending jobs at certain times, fine grained
(if needed) resource management (priorities, limits, ...), support for
interactive (never tried, though) and non-interactive jobs, ... and
integrating into Grids (its called Suns Grid Engine now) is possible
-- though not a problem here.

The only "downside" is that it probably takes a few days to get it
working if you have never used it before. But there are even graphical
queue-management tools (though I prefere the command line) now, so
seting up and managing it should get easier now, but still -- expect
some work here.

Greetings

         Helge

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