Re: [gridengine users] Scientific Linux 6.4 HVM AMI

2013-09-30 Thread Gavin W. Burris
Ah, sorry. That should have gone to the starcluster list. On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 04:03:53PM -0400, Gavin W. Burris wrote: > Hi, All. > > There is now an updated cookbook for building an HVM AMI based on the > latest Scientific Linux 6.4. Please find it here: > https://github.com/jtriley/StarCl

[gridengine users] Scientific Linux 6.4 HVM AMI

2013-09-30 Thread Gavin W. Burris
Hi, All. There is now an updated cookbook for building an HVM AMI based on the latest Scientific Linux 6.4. Please find it here: https://github.com/jtriley/StarCluster/wiki/Starcluster-ami-cookbook-scientific-linux-6.4 Being Scientific Linux, this should be compatible with all of your Red Hat or

Re: [gridengine users] How to manage grid nodes

2013-09-30 Thread Lionel SPINELLI
Hello, thanks a lot to all for all your suggestions. I will have a look to all those tools and try to understand what is the best for my situation. Thanks again Regards Lionel De : users-boun...@gridengine.org de la part de Thomas Mainka Envoyé : lundi

Re: [gridengine users] How to manage grid nodes

2013-09-30 Thread Thomas Mainka
Hello, in it's most basic form you could use pssh-tools: http://code.google.com/p/parallel-ssh/ However, this can get messy really fast, especially when some nodes are offline or when nodes lose their system disk. Then there are dedicated management tools for infrastructure, most from a dev

Re: [gridengine users] How to manage grid nodes

2013-09-30 Thread Tina Friedrich
I take it you do not use any sort of configuration management at the moment? We use CFEngine for our cluster, simply because we use CFEngine to manage all our machines - and I always thought that was a pretty sensible approach (i.e. to use/tie in to an existing system, if there is one). Tina

Re: [gridengine users] How to manage grid nodes

2013-09-30 Thread Christian Krause
Try xCAT, especially for diskless scenarios: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCAT ... although **simple** might not necessarily be appropriate ;) On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:38:02AM +, Lionel SPINELLI wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a question that is not directly linked to SGE but relates

[gridengine users] How to manage grid nodes

2013-09-30 Thread Lionel SPINELLI
Hello all, I have a question that is not directly linked to SGE but relates to the same. Which tool administrators that have to install, manage, configure and ensure coherence between lot of grid nodes use? I mean, if I have 10 nodes in my grid and need to be sure that all of them have the righ