At 11:33 AM 3/12/2003 -0500, Nicholas Henke wrote:
What I am asking the oscar folks is if that will ever happen ( dont' say yes yet... it get tricky ) ? In order to run Clubmask, you need to have: 1) a bproc patched kernel ( SRPMS provided by us )
The current oscar cvs tree supports putting any arbitrary kernel/modules into the compute nodes through sis with the kernel-picker package. It doesn't yet allow arbitrary kernel/modules to be used in the initial net-loaded sis node installation, but that shouldn't be a problem for you unless you are working on exotic hardware. That problem is being worked on. Oscar does depend on being able to access the nodes through a normal network stack via ssh to complete the oscar installation once the nodes are loaded and up. When you say a bproc kernel, does that mean that there is no longer any seperate node on a seperate network address, or just that bproc has been added so that processes can share the same pid space across the cluster?
2) the _latest_ version of the Maui scheduler, 3.2.5 or 3.2.6alpha.
The current oscar cvs tree has maui 3.2.5p2. However, it is together in a package with pbs. But perhaps they should be eventually seperated into separate packages anyway. But you can always un-select the pbs/maui package during installation and put whaever maui you want into your package that is set up for your bproc/batching system.
Now, we have started to change things in Clubmask to move towards a more 'Clubmask-$version.rpm' installation of Clubmask, but before I make any great effort to getting it working in OSCAR, I was hoping for some feedback on the feasibility of it.
Oscar encourages developers to add packages to the oscar mix. I guess the main difficulties in this case might be whether the nodes include a normal network stack and things like ssh and shells to finish the oscar intallation, and having pbs and maui globbed together in a single package.
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