Oh well, nice to find you there ;-) I'm having an internship in EDF/R&D[1] about packaging clustering stuff - the goal is to bring OSCAR[2] on Debian.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] > So far, we have been using OpenPBS (preinstalled) as > a queueing system. Since PBS went commercial recently, we'd prefer > to use a free (as in source code modifyable/redistributable) queueing > system for the new setup. OSCAR provides openpbs-2.3.16 - that may not be DFSG-compliant but shouldn't be too far from it. We've applied a set of patches coming from OSCAR and from here (EDF): about 20 patches or so. The package is currently up and running on a 16 nodes XEON bi-pro cluster - and it runs fine; lintian mostly reports a warning about images not put in independent dirs and a TK GUI sh-bang not known (in openpbs-x11) > We've also had certain problems with PBS which we hope to eliminate > with a new queueing system (a mix of parallel and sequencial jobs > isn't scheduled very well.) I guess you use the featured scheduler (openpbs's) which is told not to work fine here. We use maui-3.2.6p9 scheduler instead, which seams to work better (again, according to local experts). Once more, I didn't take time to read licenses to diagnose DFSG compliance or not, but package dedicated to openpbs is up and running (openpbs-sched-maui). [...] > Meanwhile, I've been trying to package SGE myself but I didn't make > much progress either. Beating SGE into the FHS is > quite a tiresome task. You can have a look at my latest > packaging attempt in my tla archive at: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://gluck.debian.org/~mlang/gluck--2004 I'll take a look - I know maui works with SGE too; but those maintaining maui rather recommend torque, which is a maintained fork of a previous branch of openpbs (2.3.12). I think my work on packaging openpbs-2.3.16 could be a good basis to update to torque (building chain has still to be patched a little to be usable with current Debian's chain): in fact it's in my TODO list [...] > What are other Debian using cluster administrators using for > a queueing system? Is anyone interested in a colaboration > to finally get some DFSG-free queueing system packaged for Debian? well, I'll be interested working on torque with you - but please, would you take a look at its license first, to figure out about DFSG compliance? I'll give you an URL from there to download my openpbs package any other help appreciated :-) ps: I think you could join us on [EMAIL PROTECTED], as discussions on adapting it to Debian is in the pipe now; there's also a tiki[3]. [1] http://retd.edf.fr [2] http://oscar.sourceforge.net [3] http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/tiki-index.php?page=OSCAROnDebian -- Boris Daix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
