Somewhat related to the email message below: I am going to play with a StoragePod 2.0 for the next project in 2013... The machine uses off-the-shelf components like motherboard, CPU, 45 disks, memory, power supply... and the real intellectual property that was released by Backblaze is the 4U custom case (but it is still cool!).
http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/ When I first saw the machine, I thought that it was the Sun Fire x4500 painted in red!! To me, it is a whitebox, DIY version of the x4500, but the StoragePod is much more affordable at less than US $10,000! So my question is, besides the obvious functionalities like input file staging & transfer, what are the useful features that can (and should) be implemented in Grid Engine for data management? (Feel free to contact me offline if your site has special requirements.) BTW, while googling, found that Chris also has a StoragePod: http://bioteam.net/2011/08/backblaze-storage-pod/ Rayson ================================================== Open Grid Scheduler - The Official Open Source Grid Engine http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:15 AM, William Hay <w....@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > On 19 December 2012 15:01, Vasileios Anagnostopoulos <fithis2...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi I have a program which starts with a file to be rendered. During >> runtime, it takes rendering commands (plain commands actually) through web >> services, executes them as render jobs (on the file) with opengl and through >> web sockets sends back the framebuffer to the requester (in an extended >> version it will send a vorbis/vp8 stream to a webm streaming server). It is >> an online and not an offline job, this is a requirement and I want to run >> several of these jobs. Is this use case supported on OGS? >> > > You can start interactive programs with qrsh which will give you interactive > control over the job. Grid Engine/OGS doesn't directly support setting up > any more sophisticated form of communication back to the initiating system > or elsewhere but it shouldn't get in your way either. > > William > > >> >> Regards >> Vasileios >> >> -- >> >> Dr. Vasileios Anagnostopoulos (MSc,PhD) >> Researcher/Developer >> ICCS/NTUA >> 9 Heroon Polytechneiou Str., Zografou >> 15773 Athens,Greece >> T (+30) 2107723404 >> M (+30) 6936935388 >> E va...@mail.ntua.gr<mailto:va...@mail.ntua.gr> >> www.ntua.gr<http://www.ntua.gr/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@gridengine.org > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@gridengine.org https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
