[BProc] distribution of jobs in a cluster

[Carlos C. <ca...@fi...>]

Folks,

I've just discovered bproc and it looks very interesting. However I
have a question that is crucial to our usage.

At the moment we have a small cluster of identical machines. Our users
have FORTRAN programs that right now are not parallelized and run on a
single machine. If I understood the docs, bproc doesn't automatically
move jobs between nodes. How then can one distribute the load among the
nodes? The only way I see is that the users will have to launch their
programs via bpsh, specifying the node where they want the program to
run. However, how can one discover the load of each node? The only way
I see is to run

% bpsh -aps 'cat /proc/loadavg|cut -f1'

or something similar. Is there a better way?

It'd be really nice if bproc did load balancing :-)