Dude, you got some Chef in my StarCluster!
Screencast recording showing how BioTeam uses MIT StarCluster integrated with OpsCode Chef
Tag: "gridengine"
Grid Engine for Users
PDF training slides for Grid Engine User audiences
Mar 10, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Grid Engine on the new Amazon Compute Cluster Instances
Amazon made a very important announcement today, releasing new EC2 server types that significantly enhance the Amazon AWS environment for people interested in cluster computing and high performance computing (HPC) on the cloud.
Cluster user training
On the same trip to India, I found myself in the position of delivering a training session to a room with incredibly varied backgrounds and skill levels. Some folks had never edited a file on the Unix command line before. Others just wanted to know where MPICH was installed. This set of slides goes from [...]
Dec 21, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
2009 Grid Engine Workshop in Germany
2009 Sun HPC Workshop September 7-10, 2009 Regensburg, Germany The SGE Workshop returns to Regensburg, now operating as a conference track within the 2009 Sun HPC Workshop event. Go here for details & registration: http://hpcworkshop.com/ Pictures I took at the 2007 event: Regensburg 2007 Pictures 2007 Workshop Pictures
Jun 23, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
SGE launchd script maker for Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard
We now have a perl script that will automatically create site-appropriate launchd plist files for Grid Engine – the files are constructed by querying the SGE environment variables and running one of the SGE utility scripts. This may be a more convenient method than downloading our plist files and hand-editing them via the Apple plist editor program.
Jul 15, 2008 | 8 comments | View Post
Apple OS X 10.5 launchd scripts for Grid Engine
William Van Etten has produced new scripts for the Apple OS X “Launchd” framework used by Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” systems. Moving forward it seems that Apple eventually intends to phase out the SystemStarter methods for starting/stopping daemons and services in favor of the newer launchd mechanisms. A Wiki entry over at http://gridengine.info explains [...]
Mar 04, 2008 | 2 comments | View Post
Grid Engine LifeSci SIG formed
{ Cross-posted from http://gridengine.info … } The above image shows a pair of Illumina Genome Analyzer systems installed in a laboratory setting. The Illumina systems are one example of what people are calling “Next Generation” systems for doing DNA and whole-Genome analysis. Everyone is working hard to produce the fabled “$1000 Genome” and there is [...]
Feb 18, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
SGE Video Tips: Portable Grid Engine
A short video showing how to use IP Aliasing to reliably run Grid Engine on laptop devices that may frequently operate in dynamic networking environments.
Dec 15, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
SGE Video Tips: Simple FairShare
Short video guide to configuring a Grid Engine “all users treated equally” fairshare resource allocation and scheduling policy. This is a soundless screen recording.
Dec 14, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
