Re: [coLinux-users] CoLinux, Zen, Condor and Grid Computing

[Ben V. <bva...@sc...>]

James Osborne wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I have just started working at Cardiff University in the UK and I am
>investigating the possibility of migrating our ad-hoc Condor-based =
campus grid
>over to a system using CoLinux to run some version of Linux with Condor =
on top
>(Condor on windows does not provide checkpointing).  We might also want =
to use
>something like GPFS in the future to allow us to build a campus data =
grid as
>well. The Condor execute nodes are all remotely configured using Zen on =
open
>access windows workstations (no chance of permanent move to linux i'm =
afraid).=20
>I have some experience using Microsoft Vitual PC, but I was wanting to =
find out
>from the members of this list if anybody else has experience setting up
>Linux/Condor/GPFS etc on top of CoLinux and distributing the lot using =
Zen, any
>pointers would be great
>
>Thanks
>
>James
>
>
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Last time I checked network performance in Colinux was way too slow to=20
implement anything like this. I've tried it with mpi and barely got=20
1~2Mb/s throughput, so I can't imagine running a parallel filesystem of=20
Colinux.



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