Am 25.04.2013 um 00:19 schrieb Dave Love:

> Reuti <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Some time ago Fritz mentioned that SCM to control it is abandoned and
>> Univa integrated something new to control it.
> 
> SDM is still available if you want it, and the others I'm aware of are
> on <http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/tools.html>, apart from one funded with my
> taxes which I could never get hold of.  (They could do with assessing
> and comparing, if someone would like to contribute.  It would also be
> interesting to know how they compare with support in SLURM and OAR, for
> instance.)
> 
>> Nevertheless there are scripts like
>> http://kimura.univ-montp2.fr/redmine/projects/cluster-tools/wiki/Greenginecode
>> making a little bit of looking ahead. It's necessary to replace their
>> calls to shutdown/start (originally ssh/WOL) with calls to ipmitool
>> though to control it in a nicer way (Link "Repository" in the top row,
>> other links are using a wrong port to download it).
> 
> [I'd use freeipmi, or powerman to be more general.]
> 
>> What's not working is advance reservation.
> 
> Do you mean it takes resource requests and their reservation into
> account properly?

No, not directly. It scans the output of `qstat` of any given queue for waiting 
jobs (hence: which may run in this queue) and bases the decision on this.


> I doubt this job can be done well without support in SGE itself
> (e.g. scheduling as if "zombie" nodes were available).
> 
> Note that power cycling may hurt reliability (see previous discussion
> here).  Running with the Linux "ondemand" frequency governor
> significantly reduces consumption of idle nodes without significant
> problems we've seen.  If necessary (latency effects?) you could flip
> between performance and ondemand in the usual SGE hooks.

I second this. But I saw locations where the cpufreq daemon wasn't installed 
and they chose the above solution instead.

-- Reuti
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