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Jenny:
SGE will install on all your nodes using a script. You'll love it. We're experimenting with various schedulers here and have found SGE to be the least annoying and most reliable. I started using SGE on Bernard's recommendation.
Arnie Miles
Jenny Aquilino wrote: | Hi Bernard, | | That is good input. I went to their site to try and get some | documentation and it looked like OpenPBS is no longer so Open. =( | Professional PBS appears to be what they're throwing their effort behind | now. I'll check out the other batch schedulers you suggested. I can | still use my same infrastructure that was setup with OSCAR and just use | cexec or something to push out the new scheduler to the other | nodes...once I have them. Thanks for the feedback. =) | | -Jenny =) | At 11:28 AM -0700 9/3/04, Bernard Li wrote: | |> Hi Jenny: |> |> Just throwing in my 2 cents here. |> |> If you are new to batch scheduling systems and you don't have a |> preference, I would recommend using something like Torque or SGE |> (instead of OpenPBS). OpenPBS is no longer being maintained and there |> are much better choices out there. |> |> Cheers, |> |> Bernard |> |>> -----Original Message----- |>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of |>> Jenny Aquilino |>> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 11:08 |>> To: Michael Edwards; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |>> Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] How do you make master node a |>> compute node too? |>> |>> Hi Michael, |>> |>> Wow, thanks for the quick response. =) Yeah, please don't |>> break your production cluster just to check this out. I will |>> look at the installer again to see if I see that check box |>> you're talking about. |>> It actually sounds really familiar. I installed an OSCAR |>> cluster about 3 years ago and I think I remember seeing that |>> then but I can't seem to find it now. I did try defining the |>> master nodes private interface as node0.cluster using the |>> install_server GUI with horrific results. Yeah, I won't try |>> that again. It completely broke my access to the oda |>> database so I couldn't back out of the installation or fix |>> it. I spent quite a bit of time trying differen things like |>> granting access to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] user but it |>> still wouldn't work so I finally just threw my hands up and |>> rebuilt the system. =P |>> |>> As for just geting mpich to work on its own, it appears that |>> it is configured correctly after the OSCAR installation so |>> that isn't really a huge problem. Well, except for the fact |>> that it is only seeing one processor for use. If you have |>> any idea why that is happening please let me know. I would |>> really like to have all the management stuff working though |>> which is why I'm still pushing to try and get the xpbs stuff |>> setup correctly. If you have any other ideas for me, that |>> would be great. Thanks Michael. |>> |>> -Jenny =) |>> At 12:33 PM -0400 9/3/04, Michael Edwards wrote: |>> >I am fairly sure there is a radio box somewhere in the |>> install process |>> >that says "Use head node to compute". I will try and see if |>> I can find |>> >it if I can find a computer I don't mind breaking... Don't want to |>> >mess with my production cluster, at least one of the installer steps |>> >does things even if you hit cancel :) |>> > |>> >If you just need to use lam (or I assume mpich, never tried |>> installing |>> >that one), it is quite easy to install stand alone and |>> configure to run |>> >on one computer. OSCAR is mainly handy for installing the scheduler |>> >and resource managers. Then you could go back and start over with |>> >OSCAR once you get some compute nodes. Just a thought for a |>> quick fix. |>> > |>> >Unless there is something else in OSCAR you would need for |>> development, |>> >I can't think of anything off the top of my head though. |>> >I could walk you through using lam on just one node if you |>> need a hand, |>> >I have done it before while testing things. |>> > |>> >On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:05:44 -0700, Jenny Aquilino |>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>> >> Hi, |>> >> |>> >> I was hoping that someone out there might be able to help me out |>> >> with this question. I am currently working on a rather strange |> |> > >> cluster...it's only one node. I know that sounds strange |> |>> but there >> is a reason for it. The user only has one system to |>> start |>> out with >> but would like to add more nodes very soon. The problem |>> is that he >> can't wait for the other nodes to come on-line before |>> he starts >> developing on it so I need to make this one node cluster |>> functional >> for him. |>> >> |>> >> I saw the FAQ on the OSCAR sourceforge website that says |>> to modify >> the /var/spool/pbs/server_priv/nodes file and then |>> restart the >> pbs_mom, pbs_server in order to make the master a |>> node so |>> I did that. |>> >> When I run "pbsnodes -a" it does reflect my one node. However, |>> when >> I run xpbs to see how many processors are allocated to my |>> server, it >> reflects 0. It also shows the workq as not having |>> access to any >> processors. I added a print statement to one of |>> the mpich |>> example >> programs to print out the number of cpus recognized by |>> the >> "MPI_Comm_size" command and it returned 1 when in fact my |>> system has |>> >> 2 processors. Does anyone know why this might be? Is |>> one of the >> processors on the master node always reserved? More |>> generally, is >> there a set of steps anyone could recommend to be |>> able to get the >> master node setup like a client as far as the |>> monitoring and >> scheduling tools go? I did go into qmgr and by |>> hand can |>> enter the >> information but it seems that when other nodes get |>> built, that |>> > > information is automatically populated into the tables |>> and I would |>> >> really like it if I could get the master to populate this |>> >> information on itself when it is setup to also be a compute node. |>> >> |>> >> I hope this e-mail makes sense. I'm a little crazy after |>> several >> nights of tossing and turning trying to figure out why |>> things aren't >> working the way I would expect them to. Thanks in |>> advance |>> for any >> help you can offer. =) |>> >> |>> >> -Jenny Aquilino =) |>> >> |>> >> ------------------------------------------------------- |>> >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java |>> >> Enterprise J2EE developer tools! |>> >> Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. |>> >> http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click |>> >> _______________________________________________ |>> >> Oscar-users mailing list |>> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] |>> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users |>> >> |>> |>> |>> |>> ------------------------------------------------------- |>> This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE |>> Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! |>> Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. |>> http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click |>> _______________________________________________ |>> Oscar-users mailing list |>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] |>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users |>> |>> | | | | ------------------------------------------------------- | This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop | FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! | Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. | http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click | _______________________________________________ | Oscar-users mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users |
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