Re: [Beowulf] Bright Cluster Manager

Robert, I have had a great deal of experience with Bright Cluster Manager and I am happy to share my thoughts. My experience with Bright has been as a system integrator in the UK, where I deployed Bright for a government defence client, for a university in London and on our in-house cluster

Re: [Beowulf] Bright Cluster Manager

Chris Samuel says: >I've not used it, but I've heard from others that it can/does supply > schedulers like Slurm, but (at least then) out of date versions. Chris, this is true to some extent. When a new release of Slurm or, say, Singularity is out you need to wait for Bright to package it up and

Re: [Beowulf] Bright Cluster Manager

On 1 May 2018 at 22:57, Robert Taylor wrote: > Hi Beowulfers. > Does anyone have any experience with Bright Cluster Manager? > I used to work for ClusterVision from which Bright Cluster Manager was born. Although my experience is now quite some years out of date I would still

Re: [Beowulf] Bright Cluster Manager

I never used Bright.  Touched it and talked to a salesperson at a conference but I wasn't impressed. Unpopular opinion: I don't see a point in using "cluster managers" unless you have a very tiny cluster and zero Linux experience.  These are just Linux boxes with a couple applications (e.g.

Re: [Beowulf] Bright Cluster Manager

Jeff White wrote: I never used Bright. Touched it and talked to a salesperson at a conference but I wasn't impressed. Unpopular opinion: I don't see a point in using "cluster managers" unless you have a very tiny cluster and zero Linux experience. These are just Linux boxes with a couple

Re: [Beowulf] Bright Cluster Manager

Dear all, at least something I can contribute here: at the new work place the small cluster I am looking after is using Bright Cluster Manager to manage the 20 nodes and the 10 or so GPU nodes. I was not around when it all got installed so I cannot comment on how quickly it can be done or how

Re: [Beowulf] Bright Cluster Manager

Dear Chris, further to your email: > - And if miracles occur and they do have expert level linux people then > more often than not these people are overworked or stretched in many > directions This is exactly what has happened to me at the old work place: pulled into too many different