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
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 Gordon gordon@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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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
galaxy-dev mailing list galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu http://lists.bx.psu.edu/listinfo/galaxy-dev
Assaf Gordon 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).
I've only used SGE and TORQUE PBS. Our Main site runs TORQUE/Maui, and there seems to be a memory leak in the pbs_python library somewhere so the process does have to be restarted occasionally. Other than this, Maui and the TORQUE server require little maintenance and work well.
--nate
Any suggestions ? -gordon
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-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: galaxy-dev-bounces@lists.bx.psu.edu [mailto:galaxy-dev- bounces@lists.bx.psu.edu] Namens Assaf Gordon Verzonden: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:27 PM Aan: galaxy-dev@bx.psu.edu Onderwerp: [galaxy-dev] Recommendation for Grid/Cluster management ?
SGE is not free any more (Oracle Grid Engine is "90-days evaluation, binaries only" free, starting 6.2u6).
SGE has become OGE, and as OGE isn't free anymore. But GridEngine is still available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gridscheduler/
More information through http://gridengine.info/2010/12/24/goodbye-grid-engine
Dag, Jan
On 10/01/11 22:27, Assaf Gordon 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).
A quick google reveals this statement from Oracle: "The Open Grid Scheduler project [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gridscheduler/] will be continuing on the tradition of the Grid Engine open source project. While the Open Grid Scheduler project will remain independent of the Oracle Grid Engine product, the project will have the support of the Oracle team, including making available artifacts from the original Grid Engine open source project."
The quote was found here: http://markmail.org/message/olsiw5ix63jyicar
So, although OGE in no longer open or free there is an Oracle sanctioned open version.
In the meantime, why not just stick with the latest free version of SGE? We're still using it here with very few issues.
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