On 03/01/2011 10:44 PM, Matt Garman wrote: [...]
That might be workable, but it would require me (or someone) to develop and deploy the job dispatching system. Which is certainly
Happily, the "develop" part of this is already done. Have a look at GridEngine, Torque, slurm, and a number of others (commercial versions include the excellent LSF from Platform, PBSpro by Altair, and others).
doable, but it might meet some "political" resistance. My boss basically said, "find a system to buy or spec out a system to build that meets [the requirements I've mentioned in this and other emails]."
This is wandering outside of the MD list focus. You might want to speak with other folks on the Beowulf list, among others.
I should note that nothing you've brought up isn't a solvable problem. You simply have some additional data to gather on the apps, some costs to compare against the benefits they bring, and make decisions from there. Build vs buy is one of the critical ones, but as Ed, myself and others have noted, you do need more detail to make sure you don't under(over) spec the design for the near/mid/far term.
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