On 05/17/2012 12:51 PM, Rayson Ho wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Prentice Bisbal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> When I switched employers and implemented SGE again,
>> I opted not to use CSP to avoid having these errors again. I think CSP
>> is a great feature, one that I would use and advocate if it worked
> Prentice,
>
> Just want to understand your use case, what is the main reason you use
> the CSP mode??
>
Actually, I don't use it, because of those periodic certificate errors,
but here is why I'd like to use it again:

Since SGE separates the roles of submit hosts and execution hosts, I've
set up my environment so that user workstations and my cluster nodes are
using the same Linux distro. This allows users to
program/compile/debug/test on their workstations without having to ssh
into the cluster and do this work on a cluster node. When they are
satisfied their program works as desired, they can easily submit a job
to the cluster and check on its status from their desktop. Using CSP
allows them to submit their job over an encrypted channel, which is
ALWAYS a good practice, and it provides strong(er) authentication.

It could be argued that a clusters private network is protected and any
traffic on it doesn't need to be protected by encryption, but in my
environment, there's plenty of traffic between the head node and submit
hosts that's not on the cluster's private network.

Does that make sense?

Prentice


>
>
>
>> , but
>> unfortunately, it has issues, and no seems to want the feature enough to
>> make those issues a priority for developers.
>>
>> Prentice
>>
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