Hiya Ron, Look and feel like SSH?? Are these the same people that don't use a scheduler/resource manager?
I assume that this fate includes XGET... Greg On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Greg Kurtzer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am interested in the status of XCPU and the long term goals and >> future plans for the project? > > Hi Greg. > > I am afraid that ssh rules. My feeling after 5 years of xcpu and 9 > years of bproc is that people really want their ssh on a cluster. It > scales well enough for the small stuff (64 or less) that constitutes > most systems out there, and people don't care enough about scaling to > large systems. It gives them a familiar environment. > > Note that the fastest machine on the planet, the Oak Ridge Jaguar > system, runs sshd on every node. I had xcpu running on my XT4, and > demo'd it, and it always came back to: "But it doesn't look like ssh". > > I think any future job spawning system for clusters has to either be > ssh or feel enough like ssh that nobody knows the difference. > > ron > -- Greg M. Kurtzer Chief Technology Officer HPC Systems Architect Infiscale, Inc. - http://www.infiscale.com
