Dear Gavin Thank you for your information. Yes the natural way would be to get a linux computer but I already have a large 320 cores cluster already. The idea I had was to have the Gridengine running om my laptop for testing and then when doing the more longer calculations (I am working with Monte Carlo simulations) I will do it on my Linux cluster.
I will think about if it worth the efforts!!! Best regards Michael On 2014-04-07 16:07, "Gavin W. Burris" <[email protected]> wrote: >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 >> >> >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > >-- >Gavin W. Burris >Senior IT Project Leader >Research and Innovation Team >The Wharton School >University of Pennsylvania _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
