Greetings. I have a couple of questions about making more use of the underutilized cluster my employer owns.
First, we have a Java application that we have run in the past on the cluster using PBS. We now have fewer runs to make, but some of them are becoming long. I found a couple of old threads about MPI in java, but nothing that looked recent. I also have not found much of use by doing web searches. Has anyone here used Java for parallel (cluster) applications? If so, am I wrong in having the feeling that there still really isn't a clear, "official" implementation to use? I really don't have the experience (or time) to hack at different implementations to make them work for me, but if someone knows of an approach that works well, I'd love to investigate it. (To forestall discussion about why it should or shouldn't be in Java to begin with, I'll just note that that was not - and is not - my decision, and that neither the resources nor the will to change it to another language exists at this time. I'm just looking for ways to improve performance on some code we have that is going to be in Java for the forseeable future. It is, however, very parallelizeable code, and it kills me not to be able to migrate it to the cluster.) Second, I'm very interested in knowing of any open source cluster projects looking for programmers to contribute in some way. I'm not any kind of expert at this, but I never will be if I don't find some code to work on! Again, I did a nominal web search, but didn't come up with much. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
