Fritz Ferstl writes:
> Indeed, thanks. I don't remember ever seeing that documented for any of
> our hardware.
>
>
> That information should be available. I know at least that Sun/Oracle systems
> had that as part of the HW docs.
That's the sort of hardware for which I don't remember se
Am 02.05.11 20:31, schrieb Dave Love:
Fritz Ferstl writes:
If you look at the approved power-down cycles which the vendors
publish for state-of-the-art HW then that may be scary. It usually is
in the order of 2000 cycles.
Indeed, thanks.
Fritz Ferstl writes:
> If you look at the approved power-down cycles which the vendors
> publish for state-of-the-art HW then that may be scary. It usually is
> in the order of 2000 cycles.
Indeed, thanks. I don't remember ever seeing that documented for any of
our hardware.
> The better optio
Am 02.05.11 15:51, schrieb Dave Love:
I was promised the result of
http://www.jisc.org.uk/whatwedo/programmes/greeningict/technical/supercomputers.aspx
to look at adapting it for SGE. I should chase it up, but I don't know
how comprehensive it is. As it was writte
I was promised the result of
http://www.jisc.org.uk/whatwedo/programmes/greeningict/technical/supercomputers.aspx
to look at adapting it for SGE. I should chase it up, but I don't know
how comprehensive it is. As it was written for PBS, I suspect it may
not do too useful things with resource requ
Am 29.04.2011 um 20:03 schrieb Stuart Barkley:
>
>> - monitor the length of the pending ("qw" state jobs) to see when
>> new nodes need to be powered up
>
> Suggestions for getting information out of SGE? I was thinking of the
> xml outputs instead of parsing the human readable outputs. I've s
Thanks. Good information to know.
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On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 at 13:19 -, Chris Dagdigian wrote:
> I have absolutely seen this done with very real results. The most
> important thing is have the system generate emails to senior
> management saying things like "... I saved $
I have absolutely seen this done with very real results. The most
important thing is have the system generate emails to senior management
saying things like "... I saved $12,000 in electricity last quarter ..."
-- I can't overstate enough the importance of making sure that you have
the PR stuff
Like the recent question on "cloud", we are looking to "green" our
systems somewhat.
E.g. we would like to power down unneeded nodes and power them back on
when they can be useful for the workload.
I've done a limited extent of this manually, powering down unused
racks of nodes until I notice a n