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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-cluster@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-cluster] cluster or distributed queue, general question
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:30:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080110143020.GB13680@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AD5924F6A589EF419765D39834C6BAFE699FBA@hyves1.exchange.cysonet.com>

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On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:59:27PM +0100, Jos Houtman wrote:
> For my master thesis I took up a project that requires mapping of a number of statically defined parallel jobs into a more dynamic environment that allows better scaling.  
> The situation as described below let me to believe a cluster or distributed queue (DrQueue?) solution is necessary. For the situation see [situation] at the end of this email.
Off the top of my head, many of your requirements are available in two
totally different apps:
- Gearman, written by Brad Fitzpatrick @ LiveJournal. Perl mainly, I
  think there are other interfaces as well to it.
- Torque/PBS - somewhat less of a fit, I'm not certain about running
  perpetual jobs.

You may also need some degree of STONITH for the job running only once
during node failure case. (Say the job manager crashes, the job is still
running, but you have no control of it. You need to zap it hard).

-- 
Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-10 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-10 13:59 [gentoo-cluster] cluster or distributed queue, general question Jos Houtman
2008-01-10 14:12 ` Panagiotis Christopoulos
2008-01-10 14:30 ` Robin H. Johnson [this message]
2008-01-11 10:26   ` Jos Houtman
2008-01-11 12:02     ` Hanni Ali

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