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You mentioned DrQueue, that batch processing app fulfills many of your |
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requirements. I wrote an ebuild for it too which is on bugs.gentoo |
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Hanni |
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On 11/01/2008, Jos Houtman <jos@×××××.nl> wrote: |
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> Thanx for the replies, |
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> I will certainly try the beowulf mailinglist next week, |
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> The suggestions are great gearman seems to fit except for being perl |
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> oriented (atleast that's what I read sofar). |
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> Torque/pbs, don't know about that yet. |
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> Thanx again, |
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> Jos Houtman |
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> System administrator Hyves.nl |
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> email: jos@×××××.nl |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Robin H. Johnson [mailto:robbat2@g.o] |
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> Sent: donderdag 10 januari 2008 15:30 |
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> To: gentoo-cluster@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-cluster] cluster or distributed queue, general |
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> question |
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> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:59:27PM +0100, Jos Houtman wrote: |
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> > For my master thesis I took up a project that requires mapping of a |
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> number of statically defined parallel jobs into a more dynamic |
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> environment that allows better scaling. |
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> > The situation as described below let me to believe a cluster or |
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> distributed queue (DrQueue?) solution is necessary. For the situation |
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> see [situation] at the end of this email. |
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> Off the top of my head, many of your requirements are available in two |
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> totally different apps: |
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> - Gearman, written by Brad Fitzpatrick @ LiveJournal. Perl mainly, I |
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> think there are other interfaces as well to it. |
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> - Torque/PBS - somewhat less of a fit, I'm not certain about running |
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> perpetual jobs. |
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> You may also need some degree of STONITH for the job running only once |
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> during node failure case. (Say the job manager crashes, the job is still |
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> running, but you have no control of it. You need to zap it hard). |
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> -- |
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> Robin Hugh Johnson |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy |
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> E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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E-mail: hanni.ali@×××××.com |
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