The cluster has torque installed as the resource manager. I think it runs of top of pbs (an older project). As far as I know now I just have to call a qsub command to submit my jobs on a queue, then the resource manager allocates a processor in the cluster for my process to run till is finished. And I am not really sure if I have access to all the nodes, so I can install pp on each one of them.
2009/3/4, Vincent Schut <sc...@sarvision.nl>: > hugo rivera wrote: > > > Thanks for the advice. > > Nevertheless I am in no position to decide what pieces of software the > > cluster will run, I just have to deal with what I have, but anyway I > > can suggest other possibilities. > > > > Well, depends on how you define 'software the cluster will run'. Do you > mean cluster management software, or really any program or script or python > module that needs to be installed on each node? Because for pp, you won't > need any cluster software. pp is just some python module and helper scripts. > You *do* need to install this (pure python) module on each node, yes, but > that's it, nothing else needed. > Btw, you said 'it's a small cluster, about 6 machines'. Now I'm not an > expert, but I don't think you can do threading/forking from one machine to > another (on linux). So I suppose there already is some cluster management > software involved? And while you appear to be "in no position to decide what > pieces of software the cluster will run", you might want to enlighten us on > what this cluster /will/ run? Your best solution might depend on that... > > Cheers, > Vincent. > > > -- Hugo
