Just one question ... a little bit off-topic. Why OpenPBS sucks when compared to SGE? What problems/arguments you have?
Damir Zagar Cluster & Grid Dept. University Computing Centre Zagreb, Croatia -----Original Message----- From: Lars G. T. Jorgensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2. travanj 2004 10:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: panel at ClusterWorld Patrick McDonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 27 March 2004 11:33 pm, Bdale Garbee wrote: >> I've agreed to represent Debian on a panel that's being put together >> by Jon "maddog" Hall at the upcoming ClusterWorld conference and expo >> in San Jose. >> >> During the discussion, I'd like to be able to reference actual >> clusters that are running Debian. I know about a few, but... >> >> This is a request for information about your use of Debian on >> clusters! >> >> I'd like to know what your cluster is used for, why you picked Debian >> and whether you still think it was a good choice, and any >> particularly significant results you have achieved or things you have >> learned that are worthy of report. We run a P4 2,4 GHz 240 node cluster for bioinformatics. We use debian because it's the linux distribution that is the most administrator friendly (not so much gui crap). We basicly use PXE to boot the machine and the partimage tool to copy images on to the machines. I don't know if there are some specific details that would make Debian much better then any other distribution except that you can install a very clean and small system. The only real experience we got is that OpenPBS sucked and was replaced with SGE. NB. We did all the cables by hand. It looks nice but requires cheep labour (read: students).. :) Here are some images: http://gallery.dna.binf.ku.dk/2003/0103_biocluster_og_lf2003/ >> >> Thank you! >> >> Bdale > > Well, this might not quite be what your looking for... but.... > > We have a very, very small cluster at my high school being used with > POV-ray > to render some still images and animations the students in our computer club > are creating. Some of the faculty are using it for a chemistry application > as well. To my knowledge we are the only high school in the state of > Illinois to have such a cluster (but I can't guarantee that). > > The cluster is running Debian Sarge, chosen primarily because of its > package > management systems that outperform every other free (as in beer) distro. I > was amazed at how simple Debian was to install and configure on our cluster > (a great deal simpler than RedHat, which we were trying to use for several > months.) > > Because the cluster is running on older hardware (think PII's and a > handful of > PIII's) any benchmark results probably wouldn't be of interest. We have a > web page at <http://www.muncc.marmionacademy.org/> if you do happen to find > this interesting. -- Mvh|Regards, Lars System Administrator, Phone: 3532 1349, Room: 318 Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen DENMARK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
