--- chris dagdigian <dag@sonsorol.org> wrote: > A non-NFS setup will complicate your > test cluster, especially in the early stages as you > find yourself making constant changes to queue > configurations and various SGE settings. It will > also prohibit you from using the SGE failover > features. Actually, it is a good idea to use NFS for sharing the qmaster spool directory among the shadow masters, and leave the SGE installation local for all other exec only hosts. And I agree with Chris, start playing with SGE with NFS setup first will save you a lot of trouble. -Ron P.S. shadow master how-to: http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/howto/shadow.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com