On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:57:45AM +0100, Tim Cutts wrote: > > On 10 May 2005, at 1:05 am, Paul Brossier wrote: > >Now i feel like i have missed something obvious. Is there a tool > >out there that i could use as a drop in replacement for queue? > > This is not the right forum for this question. i thought so, i actually resent this email to -beowulf and the thread is growing there. thanks for your reply anyway. > However, I'll answer you anyway, since I know something about this. > The two market leaders for this sort of processing are Sun GridEngine > (which is free [as in beer, at least]) and Platform LSF, which is > proprietary and costs $$$, but is very good at what it does. [...] > I looked at GNU queue a long time ago, and it looked (to me) as though > its mode of operation was largely based on how LSF works, but when I > looked at GNU queue it was pretty fundamentally broken (and it got > removed from woody as a result). GridEngine is rather different in its > organisation, but a lot of people swear by it. queue *is* in woody, and is planned to go in sarge as it is. i will bump the severity of the bug i reported to serious. Paul
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