[Bioclusters] Distributed Load Management on the desktop

[Botka, Christopher]

You can get binaries for Solaris SPARC, Solaris x64/x86, RHE, Windows
and HPUX at:

http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/ (Registration required)

The win executables are not the same rev of N1 v6 as the CVS tree, but
work fine (in our hands).

There's pretty simple to follow installation instructions available at:

http://gridengine.sunsource.net/documentation.html

The biggest challenge is setting up windows domain users to submit jobs,
particularly if your cluster does not authenticate against your domain.

But as mentioned below, facilitating jobs submission does nothing to
minimize the load on you master node.

CB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
> bioclusters-bounces+christopher.botka=joslin.harvard.edu at bioin
formatics.org [mailto:bioclusters->
bounces+christopher.botka=joslin.harvard.edu at bioinformatics.or
> g] On Behalf Of Rayson Ho
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 3:03 PM
> To: Clustering, compute farming & distributed computing in 
> life science informatics
> Subject: Re: [Bioclusters] Distributed Load Management on the desktop
> 
> SGE should behave the same on Windows...
> 
> However, the Windows port is not available in the opensource 
> cvs yet...
> so you have 2 options:
> 
> 1) use N1 GE (it's free):
> http://www.gridengine.info/articles/2005/12/01/sun-n1-grid-eng
ine-is-now-free
> 
> 2) compile GE under Cygwin, and people reported success with 
> that too...  ask on the "GE users" mailing list for details.
> 
> Rayson
> 
> 
> 
> --- "Andrew D. Fant" <fant at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Rayson Ho wrote:
> > > For SGE http://gridengine.sunsource.net, you don't even need to
> > install
> > > anything if all you want is a submission only node...
> > > 
> > > What you need:
> > > 1) Mount $SGE_ROOT via NFS (or make a local copy)
> > > 2) Tell the qmaster that this node is allowed to submit jobs.
> > > 
> > > IIRC, for LSF, you need to have the lim running even if 
> you want to
> > use
> > > the basic LSF commands.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks Rayson,
> >    Does SGE support Microsoftish Operating systems with equal 
> > simplicity?
> > 
> > Andy
> > 
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