[BProc] making torque (PBS) bproc aware

[Dale H. <ro...@ma...>]

Something I've been thinking about is schedulers on bproc and how the
situation still really sucks.  I have MPI applications which work find
on bproc, but as soon as I try to submit them via BJS, they fail... so
it's unuseable.  BJS doesn't support LAM, either.  And given the general
lack of documentation and support it doesn't really seem worth working
on BJS to make it better.  So I'm thinking more along the lines of
turing to Torque and making to bproc aware.  There is a much more active
developer base to Torque, given it's a split off from PBS.  One big
problem, however, I'm not really a very experience developer.  So I'm
wondering if anyone else has had any thoughts about this.  Whether they
think it's a good path?  How hard would it be to do?  

One thing that kind of perked my ears recently was that OpenMPI was
going to be scheduler aware, but I think they only mentioned PBS, which
I would assume would include Torque.  So it would be nice to have bproc,
OpenMPI and Torque (with Maui even) being all tightly integrated.  To
quote Cartman, it'd be "kickass".  

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Dale Harris   
ro...@ma...
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