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A survey of open source cluster management systems (Linux.com)
Linux.com
explores
five open-source cluster management systems.
"In computing world, the term "cluster" refers to a group of independent computers combined through software and networking, which is often used to run highly compute-intensive jobs. With a cluster, you can build a high-speed supercomputer out of hundreds or even thousands of relatively low-speed systems. Cluster management software offers an easy-to-use interface for managing clusters, and automates the process of queuing jobs, matching the requirements of a job and the resources available to the cluster, and migrating jobs across the cluster. Here's an introduction to five open source CMS applications."
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A survey of open source cluster management systems (Linux.com) Posted Sep 21, 2006 21:19 UTC (Thu) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link] I hadn't heard of Gluster before. Thanks for the link!
A survey of open source cluster management systems (Linux.com) Posted Sep 22, 2006 9:03 UTC (Fri) by eskild (subscriber, #1556) [Link] We use Sun's Grid Engine (SGE) where I work; I implemented the solution. It's run on a mix of x86 and x64 machines and used for chip synthesis and simulation.
I've experimented with using so-called parallel environments for parallel C/C++ makes, but find that distcc is much faster for those kinds of things where the individual make rule executions are short-lived (< 10-20 secs/file).
But for long-running jobs that fit well on one node, SGE is very, very nice. It's a beast to master the configuration, but once set up, it (so far) just works.
A survey of open source cluster management systems (Linux.com) Posted Oct 4, 2006 19:48 UTC (Wed) by kreutzm (subscriber, #4700) [Link] Clearly second, once you got it running its awsome, we have (had) it running for AIX, Alpha, AMD64 and of course x86 (the last three linux based). I strongly recommend having a look at it!
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