Re: [9fans] threads vs forks

[hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com>]

The cluster has torque installed as the resource manager. I think it
runs of top of pbs (an older project).
As far as I know now I just have to call a qsub command to submit my
jobs on a queue, then the resource manager allocates a processor in
the cluster for my process to run till is finished.
And I am not really sure if I have access to all the nodes, so I can
install pp on each one of them.

2009/3/4, Vincent Schut <schut@sarvision.nl>:
> hugo rivera wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the advice.
> > Nevertheless I am in no position to decide what pieces of software the
> > cluster will run, I just have to deal with what I have, but anyway I
> > can suggest other possibilities.
> >
>
>  Well, depends on how you define 'software the cluster will run'. Do you
> mean cluster management software, or really any program or script or python
> module that needs to be installed on each node? Because for pp, you won't
> need any cluster software. pp is just some python module and helper scripts.
> You *do* need to install this (pure python) module on each node, yes, but
> that's it, nothing else needed.
>  Btw, you said 'it's a small cluster, about 6 machines'. Now I'm not an
> expert, but I don't think you can do threading/forking from one machine to
> another (on linux). So I suppose there already is some cluster management
> software involved? And while you appear to be "in no position to decide what
> pieces of software the cluster will run", you might want to enlighten us on
> what this cluster /will/ run? Your best solution might depend on that...
>
>  Cheers,
>  Vincent.
>
>
>


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Hugo