XGET became too complex and hard to maintain. We may give it another go with
simpler interface and less features.
I don't know what to say about XCPU... Obviously the majority doesn't care
about it.
Thanks,
Lucho
On Nov 24, 2009, at 12:34 AM, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
>
> Hiya Ron,
>
> Look and feel like SSH?? Are these the same people that don't use a
> scheduler/resource manager?
>
> I assume that this fate includes XGET...
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Greg Kurtzer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am interested in the status of XCPU and the long term goals and
>>> future plans for the project?
>>
>> Hi Greg.
>>
>> I am afraid that ssh rules. My feeling after 5 years of xcpu and 9
>> years of bproc is that people really want their ssh on a cluster. It
>> scales well enough for the small stuff (64 or less) that constitutes
>> most systems out there, and people don't care enough about scaling to
>> large systems. It gives them a familiar environment.
>>
>> Note that the fastest machine on the planet, the Oak Ridge Jaguar
>> system, runs sshd on every node. I had xcpu running on my XT4, and
>> demo'd it, and it always came back to: "But it doesn't look like ssh".
>>
>> I think any future job spawning system for clusters has to either be
>> ssh or feel enough like ssh that nobody knows the difference.
>>
>> ron
>>
>
>
>
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> Greg M. Kurtzer
> Chief Technology Officer
> HPC Systems Architect
> Infiscale, Inc. - http://www.infiscale.com
