I have used ROCKS before, and it is a convenient way to setup a cluster because it does all the hard work for you and beucause it has many management tools (rocks, tentakel, ...). There are regular (if not frequent) updates too. The main criticism I have for ROCKS is that it's not easily possible to update the system using the distro's standard method (yum). Florent
On 11/01/11 08:45, Ross wrote:
FWIW we use rocks http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/ on one of our clusters. It has the old/free OS version of SGE as an option which seems stable and perfectly usable even if it's missing the latest updates?
Rocks is based on CentOS - most recent release uses 5.4 - is not as active a project as one might hope, but it seems usable in our hands and is fairly easy to install and configure, particularly on a uniform backend.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Assaf Gordongordon@cshl.edu wrote:
Slightly off-topic, but for a new Galaxy installation - What would you recommend for a free (FOSS) Grid/Cluster management product ?
SGE is not free any more (Oracle Grid Engine is "90-days evaluation, binaries only" free, starting 6.2u6).
Ease of administration is top-priority, more than sophisticated scheduling policies (and of course it has to be well supported by Galaxy).
Any suggestions ? -gordon
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