On 22 August 2012 14:59, Dave Love <d.l...@liverpool.ac.uk> wrote: > William Hay <w....@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > >> I'm looking to add support for BLCR into our grid engine >> configuration. A quick google suggests the scripts here >> https://github.com/HPCKP/BLCR-GridEngine-Integration should be useful >> for such integration. > > For what it's worth, it's linked from the maintained howto page, and any > extra info for there would be welcome when it's clarified. I haven't > checked the scripts, but the BLCR home page has some sort of update or > simplification of the procedure, but I can't recall what. > > Is this for MPI jobs? If not, is there a good reason to use BLCR over > DMTCP? (I think the checkpointing program for the latter needs hacking, > at least for multiple jobs/node, and I should have got back to looking > at it. I can point anyone in the right direction who wants to have a > go.) > > If it is for MPI: I seem to remember that you also have QLogic > Infiniband. There's no checkpointing support for PSM that I could find > or that QLogic people knew about and I was surprised they weren't more > interested. We're aiming for getting OpenMPI running with BLCR which I believe uses standard interfaces to talk to the qlogic interfaces rather than using PSM directly. Hopefully this is enough to make it work.
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