FYI, -Ron --- Michael Humphrey <Humphrey@altair.com> wrote: > Ron, > > Thank you for forwarding this note. > > If our friends at Platform are referring to OpenPBS > or PBS Pro as "their > closest competition", then they are misrepresenting > the numbers. > > Platform probably does not consider OpenPBS > competition to LSF V5 since this > is free software. However, OpenPBS has an installed > base which is nearly 10X > Platform's installed base. The numbers below are not > a correct > representation of OpenPBS. > > PBS Pro is clearly a competitor to LSF V5. PBS Pro > has an installed base > which is nearly 1/2 that of LSF V5. However the > numbers presented below are > not correct for PBS Pro. We have many (100+) > production sites who are > running PBS Pro in clusters in excess of 300 CPUs. > We have many sites who > are running more than 1,000 CPUs in a single > cluster. Some of our larger > sites report having more than 35,000 jobs queued on > a regular basis. These > numbers do not include sites which are combined with > Globus or peer-to-peer > scheduling (single PBS cluster only). > > > Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Chen [mailto:ron_chen_123@yahoo.com] > Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 1:43 PM > To: pbs-users@openpbs.org > Subject: [PBS-USERS] LSF vs its "Closest Competitor" > > > Someone sent me a chat from the Platform "web > event", > I would like to share with PBS developers/users. > > ======================================================== > Performance, Scalability, Robustness > > LSF 5 Closest Competitor > > Clusters 100+ 1 > > CPUs 200000+ 300 > > Jobs 500000+ ~10000+ > (active across clusters) > > Fairshare Utilization ~100% ~50% > > Query Time 20% better than 40% slower > LSF 4.2 than LSF > 5 > > Scheduler Usage 4K/job 28K/job > ======================================================== > > I would love to hear from the people here, at least > a > number of things above are not true. > > I know that PBS with Globus, Silver, or other meta > schedulers can support over 100+ clusters too. > > For CPUs supported, I am sure I've heard people > using > PBS with over 500+ processors. > > It would be interesting to see how Platform came up > with the numbers! > > -Ron > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: email majordomo@OpenPBS.org with > body "unsubscribe > pbs-users" For message archives: > http://www.OpenPBS.org/UserArea/pbs-users.html > - - - - - - - - - - > - - - - > OpenPBS and the pbs-users mailing list are sponsored > by Altair. > __________________________________________________________________________ > __________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: email majordomo@OpenPBS.org with > body "unsubscribe pbs-users" > For message archives: > http://www.OpenPBS.org/UserArea/pbs-users.html > - - - - - - - - - - > - - - - > OpenPBS and the pbs-users mailing list are sponsored > by Altair. > __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com