Beowulf clusters

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

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I need to do some parameter optimization on a long running job so I'm
planning to use the Beowulf cluster on the UMSL campus. Ideally I would
like to be able to kick off threads using the executor interface and have
them run on available nodes on the cluster. I know that things probably
aren't this simple, but that would be the ideal case.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Any help would be appreciated.

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Kenneth P. Turvey <[email protected]>

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[Filip Larsen]

Kenneth P. Turvey wrote

I need to do some parameter optimization on a long running job so I'm
planning to use the Beowulf cluster on the UMSL campus. Ideally I would
like to be able to kick off threads using the executor interface and have
them run on available nodes on the cluster. I know that things probably
aren't this simple, but that would be the ideal case.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Any help would be

appreciated.

If you are looking for ways to deploy and run computation jobs on your
cluster using Java, you may find the following interesting:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/aglets
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jcgrid/


Regards,

 

[Filip Larsen]

I wrote

If you are looking for ways to deploy and run computation jobs on your
cluster using Java, you may find the following interesting:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/aglets
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jcgrid/

I mistakenly listed The Java Grid Computing project, which seems dead,
instead of the Java Parallal Processing Framework project which is much
more
alive and kicking:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jppf-project


Regards,

 

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

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I mistakenly listed The Java Grid Computing project, which seems dead,
instead of the Java Parallal Processing Framework project which is much
more
alive and kicking:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jppf-project

The links you provided are quite interesting, particularly the one above,
but they don't seem to take advantage of the existing Beowulf
architecture. I can't really run programs on the nodes except through the
existing architecture since I'm not an administrator of the cluster. It
would be nice if there was something that had an interface like the JPPF
project but used the existing task submission and execution architecture.
Does something like this exist? It would be somewhat surprising if it
didn't with the number of Beowulf clusters out in the wild.

I really did enjoy reading the information at the link above. I was
talking to my wife the other night about how cool it would be if the
computer labs on campus joined the cluster when not in use. The project
above could make implementing this quite easy.

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[vjg]

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I need to do some parameter optimization on a long running job so I'm
planning to use the Beowulf cluster on the UMSL campus. Ideally I would
like to be able to kick off threads using the executor interface and have
them run on available nodes on the cluster. I know that things probably
aren't this simple, but that would be the ideal case.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Any help would be appreciated.

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Kenneth P. Turvey <[email protected]>

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Am I the only one here who hasn't a clue what "the Beowolf cluster" is?
You referenced UMSL and I'm assuming that's the University of Missouri
at St. Louis. I happen to live in St. Louis so it caught my eye.

 

[Oliver Wong]

Am I the only one here who hasn't a clue what "the Beowolf cluster" is?
You referenced UMSL and I'm assuming that's the University of Missouri
at St. Louis. I happen to live in St. Louis so it caught my eye.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster

- Oliver

 

[Oliver Wong]

I was
talking to my wife the other night about how cool it would be if the
computer labs on campus joined the cluster when not in use.

And how'd that go?

- Oliver

 

[Daniel Dyer]

Am I the only one here who hasn't a clue what "the Beowolf cluster" is?
You referenced UMSL and I'm assuming that's the University of Missouri
at St. Louis. I happen to live in St. Louis so it caught my eye.

My news reader seems to have lost the last day's posts, including the
original post in this thread, so forgive me if this has already been
mentioned, but how about using Java Spaces?

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/tools/JavaSpaces/
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/04/21/farm.html
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-11-1999/jw-11-jiniology.html

Dan.

 

[vjg]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster

Thanks... I went out and did some reading after I posted that question.
I should have mentioned I was off to do a little research.

- Virgil

 

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

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And how'd that go?

Haha... you must have met my wife. She often looks at me with wonder....
that is wonder about why I'm telling her this stuff.

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Kenneth P. Turvey <[email protected]>

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