[Beowulf] Best Setup for Batch Systems

[john.brookes at quadrics.com]

If you keep the db on a separate filestore then - if your pbs server goes down - you can just have a failover server that 'becomes' (takes over the ipaddr and hostname - the other nodes won't even notice the difference) the original server if the original gets screwed. We've got a couple of customers that do this, but YMMV as they use: a) a somewhat non-standard PBS; b) out-of-band management to ensure that the node isn't just temporarily unresponsive.

Cheers,

John Brookes
Quadrics

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Samuel [mailto:csamuel at vpac.org]
> Sent: 19 February 2004 03:38
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Best Setup for Batch Systems
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> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:09 pm, Andrew Wang wrote:
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> > SPBS has lots of patches integrated, but still if your
> > SPBS master node crashes, your cluster is gone.
> 
> Well, depends on your definition of "gone" really.
> 
> People can't queue new jobs, jobs waiting to run won't be 
> started, but as long 
> as your filestore is elsewhere then running jobs won't be interrupted.
> 
> However, if your filestore server disappears then you're stuffed. :-)
> 
> Chris
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