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

[Elia Stupka]

> It is however, very expensive :) Last time I checked they were still 
> selling academic licenses for roughly $400 USD per Linux CPU.

That has dropped immensely just about 10-15 days ago, they are now going
for something in the order of $70 USD per node, not bad at all...

> you the source to the Pro product if you needed it.  PBSPro is also free 
> to academics.

Ah, that is a key point I wasn't aware of... that changes things...

By the way, thanks for your extensive summary, finally I get a clear
picture, was always too hooked on LSF :)

> On a side note I've been reading the pipeline discussion threads with 
> interest and would like to become involved if I can. I was already 
> thinking about trying to make sure it plays nicely with gridengine :)

That would be great, as soon as there is a decent platform to work from we
should chat/work together about it, right now we are getting the basics
done, and want to install them on a few clusters of different types, then
we can start trying to GRID them (would be fun if the schedulers were
different on each cluster too...)

Elia






> 
> Just my $.02
> 
> Regards,
> Chris
> 
> http://bioteam.net
> 
> 
> 
> Elia Stupka wrote:
> 
> > 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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