[Bioclusters] Fwd: RE: [PBS-USERS] LSF vs its "Closest Competitor"

[Ron Chen]

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
> 
> 
> 
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