Re: [gridengine users] Green Computing (power control)

2011-04-29 Thread Reuti
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

Re: [gridengine users] `cloud' nodes

2011-04-29 Thread Bill Bryce
Hi Chris, Starcluster looks pretty good, however as you pointed out Univa with UniCloud + UGE can do very similar things and in fact does some additional functionality that is not present in StarCluster. Please have a look at: http://www.univa.com/resources/video/hpc_cloud_video.php Takes a

Re: [gridengine users] Green Computing (power control)

2011-04-29 Thread Stuart Barkley
Thanks. Good information to know. More comment embedded... 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 $

Re: [gridengine users] `cloud' nodes

2011-04-29 Thread Chris Dagdigian
I'm buried in work and biz travel so apologies if this quick reply is not on topic ... By FAR the best way to run standalone Grid Engine clusters on the Amazon Cloud today is to simply use MIT Starcluster : http://web.mit.edu/stardev/cluster/index.html The people behind starcluster basical

Re: [gridengine users] Green Computing (power control)

2011-04-29 Thread Chris Dagdigian
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

[gridengine users] Green Computing (power control)

2011-04-29 Thread Stuart Barkley
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

Re: [gridengine users] Supressing csh warning?

2011-04-29 Thread Jon Forrest
On 4/29/2011 6:01 AM, Mark Suhovecky wrote: Our existing SGE installation was provisioned by someone who's since left the university. We wanted to experiment some before we move to the new version in production. I just started to look at the upgrade scripts yesterday, with an eye towards movi

Re: [gridengine users] Supressing csh warning?

2011-04-29 Thread Hung-ShengTsao (Lao Tsao) Ph.D.
On 4/29/2011 9:01 AM, Mark Suhovecky wrote: Rayson- Thanks for the links- I'll add them to my growing SGE bookmark repository. Our existing SGE installation was provisioned by someone who's since left the university. We wanted to experiment some before we move to the new version in production

Re: [gridengine users] Supressing csh warning?

2011-04-29 Thread Mark Suhovecky
Rayson- Thanks for the links- I'll add them to my growing SGE bookmark repository. Our existing SGE installation was provisioned by someone who's since left the university. We wanted to experiment some before we move to the new version in production. I just started to look at the upgrade script