Hello, Michael.

I think you will spend more time configuring and troubleshooting grid
engine on mac than it is worth.  Your time is very expensive compared to
purchasing an additional Linux server, or I would suggest setting up ssh
keys to interact remotely with the Linux cluster.  That said, I have
some experience installing grid engine on a rack-full of Xservers.  This
is on old hardware now, Mac OS X Server 10.5 with ge6.2u2_1.

I have found mac to be an unstable HPC server environment.  I was not
able to get ulimit to be honored, so processes would often ignore limits
and consume all memory, crashing the system.  When the system crashed, I
would then have to do a painful ldap restore.  I also found that nfs
would hard lock very frequently under moderate load.  Only by accident
did I discover not to trust the mac automount daemon, but instead to
mount nfs by command line only.

I was able to get grid engine to load on boot with launchd scripts, FYI.
Note that Apple seems to be slowly removing all functionality from
config files, so you will find things moving, breaking and more
unscriptable as you follow OS updates.  I admit my unix-like approach to
mac servers, and that there is probably a "better" way to do many system
tasks, now.  Good luck.

Cheers.


On Sun 04/06/14 09:41AM +0200, Michael Ljungberg wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am new to this email list but wonder if there is anyone that has a
> relatively simple description of how to install GridEngine on a MAC 10.9
> MacBook Pro computer. I am using Gridengine on a Linux cluster and want to
> have transparant scripts.
> 
> Thank you in advance
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 

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