1) We ran a 10,000-node cluster on Amazon EC2 for Grid Engine scalability testing a few weeks ago:
http://blogs.scalablelogic.com/2012/11/running-10000-node-grid-engine-cluster.html We received lots of help from the Amazon guys, and we (= Open Grid Scheduler & Scalable Logic) wouldn't be able to achieve all this without their help! 2) Douglas - we also work with Gompute, and if you are interested in updating the article, I can hook you up with the Gompute guys. A few other additions to the article: Gompute offers a parallel filesystem (GPFS), and supports Windows (most HPC as a service vendors mainly support Linux). Also, Gompute uses the pay per use model for some of the commercial software. They also have the visualization infrastructure, and offers the Gompute software stack - but I have not used those 2 before... 3) Lastly, we should also mention StarCluster from MIT. While it is not backed by any single vendor, StarCluster is used by lots of companies - for example the BioTeam recommends it, and we also use it for some of our Grid Engine testing as well! If one just needs a small to medium cluster, then StarCluster can provision it for you in EC2 very quickly; for example, a 100-node cluster could be installed in around 10 minutes - and that was using spot instances, which have a slightly higher start time due to the bidding process. Rayson ================================================== Open Grid Scheduler - The Official Open Source Grid Engine http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Douglas Eadline <[email protected]> wrote: > Since the North East Coast (yea, the capitals are there for you Lux) > will be under some clouds this weekend I thought my > recent survey of "HPC Cloud" offerings may be of > interest. (notice the quotes) > > Moving HPC to the Cloud > http://hpc.admin-magazine.com/Articles/Moving-HPC-to-the-Cloud > > Some cold water to dump on your head maybe found here: > > Will HPC Work In The Cloud? > http://clustermonkey.net/Grid/will-hpc-work-in-the-cloud.html > > > -- > Doug > > -- > Mailscanner: Clean > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
