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On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:27:11AM -0800, Brady Catherman wrote: |
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> Im not familiar with openmosix actually.. |
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> We use Grid Engine 6 (which is where qsub comes from) It manages jobs |
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> that users submit. |
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Ohh.. okay. |
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> Each system runs Gentoo with a slew of parallel enabled programs like |
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> Fluctuate, ClustalW, MrBayes, Emboss and such. These get scheduled |
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> using grid engine. (you submit the job with qsub, then it waits for a |
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> given number of systems to become idle before starting it) |
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> If you are looking to design a cluster you can check out Dr. Amit |
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> Jain's cluster installation guide. He spent months testing every |
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What I have is a small number of servers running a big bunch of services |
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for my company. I am currently looking to virtualize everything, thus |
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making it possible to easily migrate virtual machines between physical |
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ones to best utilize our hardware. What I just thought would be an even |
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better way was if it was possible to just put all of the hardware in a |
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cluster whereupon the virtual machines would run. That should give |
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automatic load balancing and make it very easy to manage. If we start |
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running low on CPU resources, I could just add another server to the |
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cluster with basically no configuration needed. |
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I have read somewhere that openmosix and linux-vserver patches should |
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apply cleanly together, but I don't think they will work together |
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correctly. |
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What makes openmosix interresting in my view is that it makes the entire |
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cluster operate as one machine that just automatically distributes tasks |
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across the nodes. You don't even need any special cluster-aware |
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programs. Disclaimer: I may have misunderstood how openmosix. Please |
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correct me if I am mistaken. |
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> component he could get his hands on before building his cluster. He |
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> produced some really cool documents with wide ranges of cluster |
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> design in them. |
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> They can be found at: http://cs.boisestate.edu/~amit/teaching/430/ |
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> notes/beowulf-setup.pdf |
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Thanks, I'll read up on what he has to say :) |
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> He also has tons of tutorials on using OpenPBS (A grid Engine like |
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> project) and PVM and such. |
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> (Dr. Jain is like my favorite instructor of all time.. He is a |
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> cluster and Linux guru.. =) |
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Sounds good. |
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