[Swift-devel] scheduler stuff for Google Summer of Code 2009

[Tim Freeman]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:34:33 -0600
Ian Foster <foster at anl.gov> wrote:

> UniCloud provides that functionality, too. I imagine there are others.

What Nimbus actually provides is much different, a generic virtual cluster
configuration engine that runs on VMs from either EC2 and Nimbus clouds or even
for clusters that span more than one.

There happens to be one instantiation of a cluster that has gram2 + Torque (it's
been around in some form for almost two years), but you can do anything (and
people have).

And it doesn't cost any extra money on top of what you pay EC2 (like UniCloud
would).

Tim

> On Feb 11, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Tim Freeman wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:33:16 +0000 (GMT)
> > Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >>
> >>> - running Swift on clouds like E2C and Azure
> >>
> >> Tim Freeman has done some work standing up clusters on multiple EC2  
> >> nodes,
> >> so that the multiple nodes are exposed through a single (perhaps  
> >> GRAM?)
> >> interface. So putting Swift on the front of that seems  
> >> straightforward to
> >> define.
> >
> > Yep, was just starting some 100+ node GRAM/PBS clusters there last  
> > week.
> >
> > Tim
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