Re: [9fans] Plan9 usage but used to parallel MPI on linux..

[Richard Miller]

Quoting from the Plan 9 wiki (whose web interface doesn't seem to
be functioning at present):

> LEVEL 8: RESEARCH AND COMPUTATION GRIDS WITH CUSTOM CONTROL LAYERS AND UNIQUE 
> CAPABILITIES
> 
> In its role as a research operating system, the capabilities of Plan
> 9 as a distributed system are often extended by specific projects
> for specific purposes or to match specific hardware. Plan 9 does not
> include any built-in capability for things like task dispatch and
> load balancing between nodes. The Plan 9 approach is to provide the
> cleanest possible set of supporting abstractions for the creation of
> whatever type of high-level clustering you wish to create. Some
> examples of research grids with custom software and capabilities:
> 
>  *The main Bell Labs Murray Hill installation includes additional
>   software and extensive location specific configuration
>  *The [Laboratorio de Sistemas | http://lsub.org] and project
>   leader Francisco J Ballesteros (Nemo) created Plan B and the
>   Octopus, derived from Plan 9 and Inferno respectively.
>  *The [XCPU project | http://xcpu.sourceforge.net] is clustering
>   software for Plan 9 and other operating systems created at the Los
>   Alamos National Laboratory
>  *The [Plan 9 on IBM Blue Gene |
>   http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/blue_gene] project utilizes special
>   purpose tools to let Plan 9 control the architecture of the IBM
>   Blue Gene L.
>  *The [ANTS | http://ants.9gridchan.org] Advanced Namespace ToolS
>   are a 9gridchan project for creating failure-tolerant grids and
>   persistent LAN/WAN user environments.
> 
> These are examples of projects which are built on 9p and the Plan 9
> design and customize or extend the operating system for additional
> clustering, task management, and specific purposes. The flexibility
> of Plan 9 is one of its great virtues. Most Plan 9 users customize
> their setups to a greater or lesser extent with their own scripts or
> changes to the default configuration. Even if you aren't aspiring to
> build a 20-node "Manta Ray" swarm to challenge Nemo's Octopus,
> studying these larger custom systems may help you find useful
> customizations for your own system, and the Plan 9 modular design
> means that some of the software tools used by these projects are
> independently useful.

Re: [9fans] Plan9 usage but used to parallel MPI on linux..

[Chris McGee]

I would be interested in manuals or papers on this subject as well.

Plan9 is well suited to distributed computing with its per process namespaces 
and network transparent resource access. Do grid computing projects built on 
plan9 use the built-in OS facilities such as cpu and 9p or do they generally 
favour custom protocols and for what reasons?

Cheers,
Chris

> On Oct 30, 2016, at 8:33 PM, Darren Wise  wrote:
> 
> Heya folks,
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction of some manuals concerning the use 
> of a beowulf cluster style of computing setup, i'm so used to MPI installs 
> and limiting myself to terminals that being what it seems ooout-f-he-box this 
> already is setup with parallel computing in mind..
> 
> Also some examples would be great of common current usages of such.
> 
> 
> 
> > Kind regards,
> > Darren Wise Esq, 
> > B.Sc , HND, GNVQ, City & Guilds.
> > 
> > Managing Director (MD)
> > Art Director (AD)
> > Chief Architect/Analyst (CA/A)
> > Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
> > 
> > www.wisecorp.co.uk 
> > www.wisecorp.co.uk/babywise 
> > www.darrenwise.co.uk 

[9fans] Plan9 usage but used to parallel MPI on linux..

[Darren Wise]

Heya folks,
Can anyone point me in the right direction of some manuals concerning the use 
of a beowulf cluster style of computing setup, i'm so used to MPI installs and 
limiting myself to terminals that being what it seems ooout-f-he-box this 
already is setup with parallel computing in mind..
Also some examples would be great of common current usages of such.


> Kind regards,
> Darren Wise Esq, 
> B.Sc, HND, GNVQ, City & Guilds.
> 
> Managing Director (MD)
> Art Director (AD)
> Chief Architect/Analyst (CA/A)
> Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
> 
> www.wisecorp.co.uk> www.wisecorp.co.uk/babywise
> www.darrenwise.co.uk