Re: [9fans] xcpu note

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

Congrats on another fine Linux Journal article Ron.  I just got this
in the mail yesterday and read it today.

Clustermatic is pretty cool, I think it's what was installed on one of
the other clusters I used at LANL as a contractor at the time.  I
recall a companion tool for bproc to request nodes, sort of an ad-hoc
scheduler.  I had to integrate support for this in our MPI's start up
that I was testing on that machine.

I'm curious to see how this all fits together with xcpu, if there is
such a resource allocation setup needed etc.

Dave

On 10/17/05, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> oh, yeah, you're going to see a lot of debugging crap from xcpusrv.
>
> this is called: "A guy who's done select()-based threading for xx years
> tries to learn Plan 9 threads, and fails a lot, but is slowly getting
> it, sometimes"
>
> sorry for any convenience (sic).
>
> also, on Plan 9 ports,  you are going to need a linux kernel, e.g.
> 2.6.14-rc2, to make it go, or use Newsham's python client code.
>
> ron
>