[Bioclusters] job queueing systems for ibm blade center

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 08:16:00 -0400

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I had no problems running LSF on the IBM blade centre-worked like a 
charm. Easy to install and very stable. However, I've been very 
impressed with SGE (although I've only been using it for 2 months). If 
you can wait until SGE version 6.1 is available, I'd try that first.

On a related note, I had module/kernel problems getting systemimager to 
work on the blades, eventually got there though, so me know if you need 
a copy of teh initrd.img/kernel etc.

Steve

Hershel Safer wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'd be interested to hear from folks who are using IBM Blade Center 
> clusters about good and bad experiences you've had with various job 
> queueing systems. I'm especially interested in SGE, LSF, and TORQUE.
>
> Our blades will be available to anybody in the university doing 
> bioinformatics or other biological computer analysis; we're not doing 
> massive pipeline globally, though some researchers might do some for 
> specific projects. We're looking for a system that will queue and 
> distribute the jobs across the machines in the cluster.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hershel
>
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> Hershel M. Safer, Ph.D.
> Head, Bioinformatics and Biological Computing
> Weizmann Institute of Science
> PO Box 26, Rehovot 76100, Israel
> Tel: +972-8-934-3456
> Fax: +972-8-934-6006
> Email: hershel.safer@weizmann.ac.il
> Email: hsafer@alum.mit.edu
> URL: http://bioportal.weizmann.ac.il <http://bioportal.weizmann.ac.il/>

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I had no problems running LSF on the IBM blade centre-worked like a
charm. Easy to install and very stable. However, I've been very
impressed with SGE (although I've only been using it for 2 months). If
you can wait until SGE version 6.1 is available, I'd try that first. 
 
On a related note, I had module/kernel problems getting systemimager to
work on the blades, eventually got there though, so me know if you need
a copy of teh initrd.img/kernel etc. 
 
Steve 
 
 
 
 
Hershel Safer wrote: 
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folks, 
 
I'd be interested to hear from folks who are using IBM Blade Center
clusters about good and bad experiences you've had with various job
queueing systems. I'm especially interested in SGE, LSF, and TORQUE.
 
 
Our blades will be available to anybody in the university doing
bioinformatics or other biological computer analysis; we're not doing
massive pipeline globally, though some researchers might do some for
specific projects. We're looking for a system that will queue and
distribute the jobs across the machines in the cluster. 
 
Thanks, 
 
Hershel 
 
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 <hr>Hershel M. Safer, Ph.D. 
Head, Bioinformatics and Biological Computing 
Weizmann Institute of Science 
PO Box 26, Rehovot 76100, Israel 
Tel: +972-8-934-3456 
Fax: +972-8-934-6006 
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hershel.safer@weizmann.ac.il">hershel.safer@weizmann.ac.il</a> 
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hsafer@alum.mit.edu">hsafer@alum.mit.edu</a> 
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