On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Rayson Ho <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
I saw some other large clusters, and most used larger number of cores and few nodes. For example, Numerate’s Drug Design Platform Scales to 10,000+ Cores Using Spot Instances: http://numerate.com/blog/?p=155 > 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... And I think they are also using bare-metal instead of VM, so it can benefit a few types of parallel apps that require low latency. --Chi > > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
