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Afaik, xen tools are only for virtual hosts, which wouldn't help us |
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much. Our lab machines get hit pretty hard by matlab users, so it's not |
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something that would virtualize well. The current setup isn't really |
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clustered at all, it's a rack and lab setup sharing home directories and |
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automounts using NIS. I liked the idea of letting something like |
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openmosix doing workload balancing between machines without having to |
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write wrapper scripts around the jobs. |
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The ideal setup would have one machine were students/researchers log |
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into, fire up the process, then have a management tool that determines |
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where it runs. Users logging into random machines to run their jobs |
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means sometimes 5 machines are idle while another machine is heavily |
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loaded. A central login point would also allow us to restrict direct |
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access to all the other machines. |
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Ted |
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José Costa wrote: |
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> Well, have you tried with Linux-HA using Xen OCF Resource Agent? |
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> On 5/24/07, Ted Rodgers <trodgers@××××××.edu> wrote: |
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>> Joshua Morris wrote: |
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>> > What other alternatives are there? Can anyone share their |
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>> installation |
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>> > tips and help some of us that are new to clustering but familiar with |
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>> > Gentoo. I am looking to build something when I can run multiple |
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>> vm's on |
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>> > a cluster and load balance the vm's across the cluster. Anyone doing |
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>> > anything similar to this? |
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>> > Thank you, |
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>> > Joshua |
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>> We've been asking the same question where I work. We're wanting to |
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>> re-do and increase performance in a few lab setups and thought openmosix |
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>> would be a great option. If there aren't tools available for a 2.6 |
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>> kernel, we may have to keep using the current setup: NIS / NFS / autofs |
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>> / afs setup with users loging in to specific machines. One group tried |
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>> condor, but really isn't happy with it at all. |
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>> Any suggestions? |
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>> Ted Rodgers |
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>> Robotics, CMU |
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