[Swift-devel] How to do coasters on bgp?

[Ioan Raicu]

Aha, right, I didn't catch that ;)

Michael Wilde wrote:
> On 4/15/09 8:08 PM, Ioan Raicu wrote:
> ...Before moving to
>> the BG/P, I'd argue for implementing static provisioning, where one 
>> could specify N nodes/cores for H hours, all contained in a single 
>> LRM job submission. Once that works in general, on your favorite LRM, 
>> then I'd move to the BG/P, and tackle BG/P specific issues.
>
> Right. Mihael is currently developing that (see below).
>
>> Ioan
>>
>> Michael Wilde wrote:
>>> What work is needed if we want to run coasters on the bgp?
>>>
>>> I can think of the following, but there might be more, or differen, 
>>> issues.
>>>
>>> The scheduler is cobalt - it seems pretty PBS-like to the user; I 
>>> dont know if its pbs-like enough for swift and coasters.
>>>
>>> We need to see if we can first run a simple job with the pbs provider.
>>>
>>> Then we can test if we start a single coaster job. That should 
>>> ensure that the perl we need is all there.
>>>
>>> Once all that works, we need to work out how to ask coasters to 
>>> allocate all the cores it wants in one job. Im hoping this would 
>>> work the same on bgp as the feature you're developing for that 
>>> purpose on other hosts.
>                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> (does it have property name or profile variable name?)
>>>
>>> Does this seem close, anything missing, any other problems expected 
>>> on BGP?
>>>
>>>
>>> p.s.
>>> Then there is sicortex, which is not a priority at all, but its 
>>> interesting to think about:
>>> - no Java on head node
>>> - slurm scheduler
>>> - we have tested falkon on it by ssh tunneling from communicado
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>>
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