A survey of open source cluster management systems (Linux.com)
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."
Posted Sep 21, 2006 21:19 UTC (Thu)
by dberkholz (guest, #23346)
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Posted Sep 22, 2006 9:03 UTC (Fri)
by eskild (guest, #1556)
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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.
Posted Oct 4, 2006 19:48 UTC (Wed)
by kreutzm (guest, #4700)
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I hadn't heard of Gluster before. Thanks for the link!A survey of open source cluster management systems (Linux.com)
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.A survey of open source cluster management systems (Linux.com)
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!A survey of open source cluster management systems (Linux.com)