On Aug 29, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Peter C. Norton wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:55:24AM -0700, eric kustarz wrote: >> No official way to do it now, but something i would definitely >> like to see happen. >> >> Another hackish way is to run multiple instances at the same time >> (each with its own $dir specified). Coordinating the separate >> instances and aggregating the data would be tricky. >> >> Part of this ties into getting multiple client support. >> >> eric > > For filebench, has anyone looked into whether a cross-platform tool > with better interactive support than SGE could be used to make a lot > of the hard stuff for paralell filebench easier? I'm specifically > thinking about ipython? It seems like a *much* lighter-weight solution > than SGE - it's something you could set up in a few minutes on many > platforms and run your tests and tear them down without having to > administer SGE. Are there other viable platforms? > > See http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Parallel_Computing for more > information. > > -Peter >
Interesting, thanks for the pointer. Someone previously took a look at SGE (sun grid engine), Faban, SLAMD, Autopilot, and uPerf (internal framework to Sun). SGE came out on top of those picks. I forget the exact reasons, though i know one (Autopilot) was rejected due to being too single OS specific (Autopilot assumes Linux). Note, we would reject something that assumed the OS was OpenSolaris as well. We'll definitely take a look at IPython. For the above mentioned frameworks, do you have any opinions/experience with those? eric _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
