Re: [9fans] xcpu note

[Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>]

Scott Schwartz wrote:

> Probably apples and oranges, but Jim Kent wrote a job scheduler for his
> kilocluster that nicely handled about 1M jobs in six hours.  It's the
> standard thing for whole genome sequence alignments at ucsc.

I think that's neat, I would like to learn more. Was this scheduler for 
an arbitrary job mix, or specialized to that app?

> 
> | If you look at how most clusters are used today, they closely resemble 
> | the batch world of the 1960s. It is actually kind of shocking. 
> 
> On the other hand, sometimes that's just what you really want.
> 

true. Sometimes it is. I've found, more often, that it's what people 
will accept, but not what they want.

ron