why not supercapacitors to power safe and ram memories as ramdisks? a backup solution could help on umount or backup 2011/3/2 Joe Landman <joe.landman@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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. > > Regards, > > Joe > > -- > Joseph Landman, Ph.D > Founder and CEO > Scalable Informatics, Inc. > email: landman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > web : http://scalableinformatics.com > http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster > phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 > fax : +1 866 888 3112 > cell : +1 734 612 4615 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Roberto Spadim Spadim Technology / SPAEmpresarial -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
