From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <138575260903030352s623807d7p5a3075b1f7a591f6@mail.gmail.com> <4f34febc0903030847t9aedad9haf4355e74953e6a3@mail.gmail.com> <138575260903040158r3ebc4e76haa5a328d2840bd5f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:45:35 +0100 Message-ID: <138575260903040245w3e8ede69t42d91f290ff82523@mail.gmail.com> From: hugo rivera To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] threads vs forks Topicbox-Message-UUID: af953832-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 : > 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. > > > -- Hugo