Re: [gentoo-cluster] Gentoo vs RedHat cluster
Brady Catherman wrote: So the short of it is that higher is always better, and this is only a 'best as I personally' could do comparison. OK, thanks for the clarification. Have you also run lmbench? After our conversion things went together much smoother and now maintenance is fairly painless. I spend all of my time setting up our Apple cluster (The Gentoo ppc64 performance just wasn't good enough to wow the management into using it =) Yeah, from the numbers it looks as if it would be dependent on the purpose of the cluster whether OS X or Gentoo would do better. On ppc, Gentoo does poorly on the first two benchmarks and also on context switching. On x86, the first two are more comparable with RH, but the others, Gentoo has a small to large advantage over RH, just as on ppc. One big advantage of Gentoo is the ease in which new programs/libraries can be installed. I have written dozens of ebuilds for all the programs we use here in order to simplify installation and administration. If they're redistributed programs, we would very much appreciate contribition of the ebuilds. Now to install a new program I just have to build it on a node using: echo emerge -b program | qsub Then I install it on everything else using: emerge -K program ; pdsh -a emerge -K program Got a pdsh ebuild? Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-cluster] Gentoo vs RedHat cluster
Simon - have you considered OCFS2 vs unionfs? -Jared On 4/11/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: If they're redistributed programs, we would very much appreciate contribition of the ebuilds. Sorry, contribution Donnie -- gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-cluster] Gentoo vs RedHat cluster
The project's site: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/ contains _WAY_ too many acronyms and the name Oracle and Oracle-specific enhancements for Oracle tools... Though this new version seems to be more broad for it's intended use... Anyone has some experience with this?does it implement all the stuff required for a regular FS _and_ a means to have a union fs type of mount Note that the user guide mentions nothing about NFS Le Mardi 11 Avril 2006 18:25, Jared Greenwald a écrit : Simon - have you considered OCFS2 vs unionfs? -Jared On 4/11/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: If they're redistributed programs, we would very much appreciate contribition of the ebuilds. Sorry, contribution Donnie -- Eric Thibodeau Neural Bucket Solutions Inc. T. (514) 736-1436 C. (514) 710-0517 -- gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-cluster] Gentoo vs RedHat cluster
Is it really?...it seems like it's a shared FS but there seems to be no way for it to be a shared _root_ ...as I said, I see no ways or indications that one can boot off of it. Eric Le Mardi 11 Avril 2006 21:55, Jared Greenwald a écrit : I was thinking of unionfs incorrectly... OCFS2 is more for shared root. -Jared On 4/11/06, Eric Thibodeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The project's site: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/ contains _WAY_ too many acronyms and the name Oracle and Oracle-specific enhancements for Oracle tools... Though this new version seems to be more broad for it's intended use... Anyone has some experience with this?does it implement all the stuff required for a regular FS _and_ a means to have a union fs type of mount Note that the user guide mentions nothing about NFS -- gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org mailing list
