[Bioclusters] Re: Login & home directory strategies for PVM?

[Michael Gutteridge]

Thanks... been thinking about local homes vs. pvfs since I don't really 
need anything but .bashrc.  However, managing local home directores on 
62+ nodes gets boring after a while...  I rather prefer the idea of 
running pvm as you indicate, but I haven't had any luck finding out how 
to do this- do you have a pointer to something that describes that?  I 
can't even pull together a good google term to find out how that's 
typically done.

I will very likely end up using pvfs for database directories if I can 
make it robust enough, though.  Sounds like pvfs2 has some great 
improvements in that area.

> Lastly, you can port to mpich on a bproc system like Scyld, and get 
> rid of
> pvmd's altogether.

 From my conversations with the developers, sounds like a port to MPI is 
underway.

Thanks ...


On Feb 24, 2005, at 11:05 AM, Michael Will wrote:

> Just statically mount /home rather than doing automounting of 
> individual homes,
> and you are fine.  Also you could run the pvmd's as a user that does 
> not require
> or have an nfs-mounted home but uses local scratch instead.
>
> Lastly, you can port to mpich on a bproc system like Scyld, and get 
> rid of
> pvmd's altogether.
>
> Michael