Both LSF and SGE can easily handle 250 nodes... As Tim mentioned, LSF has some add-ons, but don't forget that Sun added the accounting module and other nice stuff in SGE6. Also want to mention that the N1 stack is nicely integrated, and is now free: http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-11/sunflash.20051130.1.html Another advantage is that the SGE mailing list is popular and people are helpful: http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=users Rayson --- Bonnie Hurwitz <hurwitz at cshl.edu> wrote: > We are in the process of deciding on a distributive management > software for a 250 node cluster and are concerned about performance > and issues that come up with a cluster this size. > > Are there are web sites were we can get some nice comparisons and > solid examples of issues that people run into using different DSM > software? We would like to compare and contrast SGE, LSF and PBS. > > Or, Can anyone recommend any previous postings on this list that > could help us? > > -Bonnie > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com