Greetings! Thanks for the PBS tip! Take care,
"Matthias H. Hennig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > > > Btw. a nice way to increase the size of your cluster is simply to ask > > > the technicians for old hardware (which means everything >600MHz) that > > > is no longer used. Usually, these computers are from student labs and > > > would otherwise go to charity (which is of course fine as well...). > > > > > > > Am particularly interested how you make use of a non-uniform cluster. > > Most of the applications (MPI) we've developed will run as fast as the > > slowest node. > > We're using PBS (tried both OpenPBS and PBSpro) - there the node > attributes are useful to define different groups of nodes (we're > basically using slow/fast and low/high memory). I'm usually using the > queuing mode, here of course every additional node is fine. But for > applications using MPI it usually came down to arrangements with > colleagues as to who gets which set of nodes anyway. Therefore our > approach always was to include whatever we got... > > Matthias > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
