On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:27:11AM -0800, Brady Catherman wrote: > Im not familiar with openmosix actually.. > We use Grid Engine 6 (which is where qsub comes from) It manages jobs > that users submit.
Ohh.. okay. > Each system runs Gentoo with a slew of parallel enabled programs like > Fluctuate, ClustalW, MrBayes, Emboss and such. These get scheduled > using grid engine. (you submit the job with qsub, then it waits for a > given number of systems to become idle before starting it) > If you are looking to design a cluster you can check out Dr. Amit > Jain's cluster installation guide. He spent months testing every What I have is a small number of servers running a big bunch of services for my company. I am currently looking to virtualize everything, thus making it possible to easily migrate virtual machines between physical ones to best utilize our hardware. What I just thought would be an even better way was if it was possible to just put all of the hardware in a cluster whereupon the virtual machines would run. That should give automatic load balancing and make it very easy to manage. If we start running low on CPU resources, I could just add another server to the cluster with basically no configuration needed. I have read somewhere that openmosix and linux-vserver patches should apply cleanly together, but I don't think they will work together correctly. What makes openmosix interresting in my view is that it makes the entire cluster operate as one machine that just automatically distributes tasks across the nodes. You don't even need any special cluster-aware programs. Disclaimer: I may have misunderstood how openmosix. Please correct me if I am mistaken. > component he could get his hands on before building his cluster. He > produced some really cool documents with wide ranges of cluster > design in them. > They can be found at: http://cs.boisestate.edu/~amit/teaching/430/ > notes/beowulf-setup.pdf Thanks, I'll read up on what he has to say :) > He also has tons of tutorials on using OpenPBS (A grid Engine like > project) and PVM and such. > (Dr. Jain is like my favorite instructor of all time.. He is a > cluster and Linux guru.. =) Sounds good. -- Anders -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/O d--@ s:+ a-- C++ UL+++$ P++ L+++ E- W+ N(+) o K? w O-- M- V PS+ PE@ Y+ PGP+ t 5 X R+ tv+ b++ DI+++ D+ G e- h !r y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ PGPKey: http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD4DEFED0 -- [email protected] mailing list
