Hi, With OSCAR you can install all your nodes with linux, and then use Torque to send one job to each node. So (IMHO) yes, it can suite your needs.
Cheers, -- Diego. On Friday 13 February 2009 20:47:11 Antonio Leonforte wrote: > Hi, > > my first post here. I need to perform several transcoding tasks in > parallel. The transcoder is a mono-threaded java program reading some files > (as a whole) and generating some other files. > > > > Although each transcoding job cannot be splitted, I would like to use OSCAR > in order to transparently manage a cluster if linux computers as a single > computer, capable of executing many transcoding jobs in parallel on > different cores. > > > > Ideally, I would like to see the entire cluster as a single super-computer > with a single IP address, so that I can > > > > 1) FTP-put a input<N>.zip archive containing the source files to be > transcoded somewhere on the super-computer > > 2) FTP-get from the super-computer an output<N>.zip archive containing > the transcoded files > > > > My question is: how hard is this to achieve with OSCAR ? > > Is it OSCAR well suited for the purpose I described ? > > Thank you in advance for your help. > > Antonio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
