>>>>> "Edward" == Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> writes:
>> From: John Stoffel [mailto:[email protected]] >> >> If you're looking for another alternative to LSF/SGE, take a look at >> RTDA's (http://rtda.com) NC job scheduler. They're a small company, Edward> Thanks for the suggestion, but it don't matter. Unfortunately. Edward> The driving force behind it is EDA tools. For example, Cadence, has a nice Edward> GUI for drawing up schematics and circuits etc. Then you click "place and Edward> route." "simulate" etc. Jobs will be distributed to a cluster of compute Edward> nodes. The GUI needs to have integration for whatever scheduler you're Edward> using in the background, and the only three options are LSF, SGE, and the Edward> Cadence proprietary scheduler. If you use LSF, you pay. If you use SGE, Edward> everything's right. And if you use the proprietary scheduler, then you Edward> can't distribute any type of jobs other than Cadence jobs. NC has an LSF emulation mode. It's not perfect, but it can work. And they (RTDA) are responsive to send out patches for missing emulation features. We moved away from that model pretty quickly though, since we don't use this feature in Cadence at our shop. Edward> So the clear winner is SGE. Until recently. Now it's a Edward> trade-off between LSF and OGE. Need to try 'em both, and Edward> choose whichever one you like better. Edward> And so it goes. Same story for half a dozen other EDA tools. Sure. Unfortunately for my $WORK, I feel that our EDA tools guys aren't doing a good job, but that's my opinion. John _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
