Groups.grid.org

Next week Univa will be at Oracle Open World demonstrating a policy-enabled, dynamically managed Oracle E-Business Suite private cloud. Why talk about what you can when you can see it?

http://www.univaud.com/hpc/products/oracle-demo.php

Special thanks to our partners Sun, Oracle and Zeus Technology

This video was filmed in Intel Studios in Santa Clara. In this video we describe how a small company like Univa can take advantage of Intel Cluster Ready. With ICR Univa is able to spend engineering time solving numerous yet-to-be-solved software management issues in a cluster. 

http://www.clusterconnection.com/2009/03/univa-ud-intel%C2%AE-cluster-re...

There has been a lot of work occuring behind the scenes and this is the outcome of many man-months of effort:

http://gridengine.info/2008/11/12/lsf-to-sge-migration-workshop-at-sc08

After SC this week we plan to publish several documents on enabling migration.

For a while now I have been thinking of how to make it easier for our customers and others to move from one batch system to another.   When I mention this idea to others they invariably say....'that shouldn't be too hard' but once you dig deeper you quickly realize that the three major batch systems out there SGE, PBS and LSF are very different and have gone in very different directions over time.

I dropped this in my blog but thought perhaps it was valuable enough to cross-post.

Univa UD is inviting our technology and contribution community partners to squat in our booth at the upcoming SuperComputing show in Austin this November.

Interested parties can submit this form

Space is limited .... some restrictions apply.

Some proof points that migration from Platform LSF to UniCluster and SGE are possible. Attached is a white paper Univa UD released in early August.

download here 

A highlight from the white paper:

Open HPC Management Interoperability Project

Background – Problem Context

Hi All, 

One of the areas the OHMI project is focused on is
interoperability between batch systems.  Unfortunately the most popular
systems are not really compatible with each other.

 Submitting a
job into SGE, PBS, NQS and other batch systems that attempt to follow
the POSIX 1003.2d is done with the 'qsub' command but other systems
such as LoadLeveler use 'llsubmit' and LSF which is very common uses
the 'bsub' command.