Re: [Sisuite-announce] [sisuite-users] SystemImager cluster map

[Andrea R. <a....@ci...>]

Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Andrea Righi wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to point to our new Google Maps like tool to keep track who's
>> using SystemImager around the world:
>>
>> http://wiki.systemimager.org/cluster-register/cluster-map.php
>>
>> We're really interested in this kind of feedback and user  
>> experiences in
>> general, so if you're using SystemImager in your organization,  
>> company,
>> laboratory, school, etc., please, consider to register your cluster on
>> the map.
>>
>> A big thank to Bernard that provided the cluster map code used for  
>> OSCAR
>> (http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/cluster-map). There are some small
>> changes respect to the OSCAR version in order to make it more suitable
>> for SystemImager.
>>
>> And a big thank in advance to all the users that'll register their
>> clusters on the map!
>>
>> -Andrea
>>
>> PS suggestions/bugs reporting about the cluster map interface are
>> welcome as well.
> 
> 
> 
> It is a nice feature to have the cluster map. I have a remark the  
> interface expects one type of node for the whole cluster. At our site  
> we have different nodes in the same cluster:
>   - 1850 with 2 cpu's
>   - 1950 with 2 quad cores
> 
> To make it more complicated the memory is also different in the  
> nodes ;-)

yup! heterogeneous clusters :-P, yes, probably we could change the
interface using a multi-value attribute for CPU-type (and also for
memory), but I wouldn't like to complicate too much the interface or
maybe users will be discouraged. For now I've relaxed the Rmax < Rpeak
constraint, otherwise you cannot register the Rmax value when you use a
custom label for CPU type (and IMHO your "CPU_type_1 and CPU_type_2"
syntax it's simple and express very well the concept).

Thanks Bas!
-Andrea