[Bioperl-l] Re: [PBS-USERS] openPBS configuration (fwd)

[Elia Stupka]

Hello folks,

I am pretty disappointed. Thought that PBS would be a nice free
alternative to LSF for those who don't want to spend on LSF, but from the
e-mail below on the PBS-users list it is absolutely obvious that their
strategy is that PBSpro (read paid software) will be reliable, robust and
scalable, while the free counterpart will be left unscalable and buggy...

Questions:
1)Do people have better info then my mail-sniffing to judge?
2)Is there yet another open source alternative to PBS and LSF?

Elia

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:17:38 -0700
From: Bob Henderson <hender@pbspro.com>
To: Robert Binz <robertbinz@GeneFormatics.com>, elia@fugu-sg.org
Subject: Re: [PBS-USERS] openPBS configuration

> Robert Binz wrote:
> 
>  All,
> 
> I am looking for some thoughts and suggestions on implementing  a 200+
> openPBS cluser.  The current cluster we have today has less than a
> hundred nodes to a single openPBS server/scheduler all running RH 6.2
> with openPBS-2.3.12.  The new servers will also run RH 6.2 and
> openPBS-2.3.12.
> 
> One issue I have is the current cluster seems to overwhelm the pbs
> server when we are processing data.  When I attempt to run qstat the
> command will time out.  At times the server is so busy I am not able
> to telnet/ssh to the server.
> 
> I am concerned that the new IBM cluster will suffer from the same
> issues as the smaller cluster does.  Is there any way to configure the
> openPBS to have several master nodes, or some configurations that
> would keep a single master node from being overworked?  Your thoughts
> and suggestions welcomed.
> 
> Robert

I would suggest you investigate PBS Pro.   It has a number of
reliability features the will help in your situation.  We have customers
with 500+ node clusters.

See http://www.pbspro.com for more info.

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