From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HrdGQ-0006qp-JG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 17:07:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4PH6E6i017727; Fri, 25 May 2007 17:06:14 GMT Received: from chokecherry.srv.cs.cmu.edu (CHOKECHERRY.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.185.41]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4PH6Crt017681 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 17:06:13 GMT Received: from [128.2.211.251] (XEVIOUS.VASC.RI.CMU.EDU [128.2.211.251]) by chokecherry.srv.cs.cmu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4PH6CgN015550 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 13:06:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <46571761.9010608@cs.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 13:05:37 -0400 From: Ted Rodgers User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-cluster@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-cluster@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-cluster] openmosix References: <6763832255B40844894F2C905CE2852F2EFBF4@minnicksbs.MinnickWeb.loc> <4655B8BC.3000802@cs.cmu.edu> <3f85ef270705240933o30b43b7bp1cabbf7f91c6361b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3f85ef270705240933o30b43b7bp1cabbf7f91c6361b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l4PH6E7D017727 X-Archives-Salt: 29482577-3add-4f5d-81d2-24f6ef2831fa X-Archives-Hash: 06d6e18f3b1a34098ab67a1bcb736fa9 Afaik, xen tools are only for virtual hosts, which wouldn't help us=20 much. Our lab machines get hit pretty hard by matlab users, so it's not=20 something that would virtualize well. The current setup isn't really=20 clustered at all, it's a rack and lab setup sharing home directories and=20 automounts using NIS. I liked the idea of letting something like=20 openmosix doing workload balancing between machines without having to=20 write wrapper scripts around the jobs. The ideal setup would have one machine were students/researchers log=20 into, fire up the process, then have a management tool that determines=20 where it runs. Users logging into random machines to run their jobs=20 means sometimes 5 machines are idle while another machine is heavily=20 loaded. A central login point would also allow us to restrict direct=20 access to all the other machines. Ted Jos=C3=A9 Costa wrote: > Well, have you tried with Linux-HA using Xen OCF Resource Agent? > > On 5/24/07, Ted Rodgers wrote: >> Joshua Morris wrote: >> > What other alternatives are there? Can anyone share their=20 >> installation >> > tips and help some of us that are new to clustering but familiar wit= h >> > Gentoo. I am looking to build something when I can run multiple=20 >> vm's on >> > a cluster and load balance the vm's across the cluster. Anyone doin= g >> > anything similar to this? >> > >> > Thank you, >> > Joshua >> > >> We've been asking the same question where I work. We're wanting to >> re-do and increase performance in a few lab setups and thought openmos= ix >> would be a great option. If there aren't tools available for a 2.6 >> kernel, we may have to keep using the current setup: NIS / NFS / autof= s >> / afs setup with users loging in to specific machines. One group trie= d >> condor, but really isn't happy with it at all. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Ted Rodgers >> Robotics, CMU >> --=20 >> gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> --=20 gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org mailing list