Re: [Beowulf] Fwd: Project Natick

2018-06-10 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 11/06/18 07:46, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote: Stuart Midgley works for DUG? Yup, for over a decade.. :-) -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing

Re: [Beowulf] Fwd: Project Natick

2018-06-10 Thread John Hearns via Beowulf
Stuart Midgley works for DUG? They are currently recruiting for an HPC manager in London... Interesting... On 7 June 2018 at 23:32, Chris Samuel wrote: > On Friday, 8 June 2018 1:38:11 AM AEST John Hearns via Beowulf wrote: > > > The report interestingly makes a comparison to cruise lines and

Re: [Beowulf] Avoiding/mitigating fragmentation of systems by small jobs?

2018-06-10 Thread Scott Atchley
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 4:53 AM, Chris Samuel wrote: > On Sunday, 10 June 2018 1:22:07 AM AEST Scott Atchley wrote: > > > Hi Chris, > > Hey Scott, > > > We have looked at this _a_ _lot_ on Titan: > > > > A Multi-faceted Approach to Job Placement for Improved Performance on > > Extreme-Scale

Re: [Beowulf] Fwd: Project Natick

2018-06-10 Thread Chris Samuel
On Saturday, 9 June 2018 6:25:33 AM AEST Lux, Jim (337K) wrote: > If you want a cluster computer at Europa, you need reliability and remote > maintainability I suspect you could probably find some volunteers for on-site work... ;-) -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne,

Re: [Beowulf] Avoiding/mitigating fragmentation of systems by small jobs?

2018-06-10 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 06:46:04PM +1000, Chris Samuel wrote: > On Sunday, 10 June 2018 1:48:18 AM AEST Skylar Thompson wrote: > > > We're a Grid Engine shop, and we have the execd/shepherds place each job in > > its own cgroup with CPU and memory limits in place. > > Slurm has supports cgroups

Re: [Beowulf] Avoiding/mitigating fragmentation of systems by small jobs?

2018-06-10 Thread Chris Samuel
On Sunday, 10 June 2018 1:22:07 AM AEST Scott Atchley wrote: > Hi Chris, Hey Scott, > We have looked at this _a_ _lot_ on Titan: > > A Multi-faceted Approach to Job Placement for Improved Performance on > Extreme-Scale Systems > > https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7877165/ Thanks! IEEE has

Re: [Beowulf] Avoiding/mitigating fragmentation of systems by small jobs?

2018-06-10 Thread Chris Samuel
On Sunday, 10 June 2018 1:48:18 AM AEST Skylar Thompson wrote: > We're a Grid Engine shop, and we have the execd/shepherds place each job in > its own cgroup with CPU and memory limits in place. Slurm has supports cgroups as well (and we use it extensively), the idea here is more to try and