Re: [9fans] xcpu note

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

andrey mirtchovski wrote:
>>| No other scheduler we have used 
>>| comes close to this kind of performance. Scheduler overhead was 
>>| basically insignificant.
>> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> the vitanuova guys probably have better numbers, but when we ran their
> grid code at ucalgary it executed over a million jobs in a 24-hour
> period.  the jobs were non-null (md5sum using inferno's dis code).  it
> ran on a 12 (or so) -node cluster :)
> 

man, all these schedulers that work MUCH better than the stuff we pay 
money for ... ah well. It shows how limited my experience is ... I'm 
used to schedulers that take 5-25 seconds to schedule jobs on 1000 or so 
nodes.

Oh, wait, 12 nodes. Hmm. That's cheating!

ron