Re: [Condor-users] Condor and diskless beowulf cluster

[Steven Timm <timm@xxxxxxxx>]

I'm aware of a cluster here at Fermilab that has 500 nodes all
sharing the same set of condor binaries via NFS.  The tradeoff
is that if the network goes away for any significant length of time
or is down when the machines get power cycled, condor doesn't start
right and you have to go back and start it manually. But it does
make upgrades faster.  I don't like the technique myself but
the admins that do it that way swear by it.

Steve Timm


On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Steffen Grunewald wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:30:36PM -0500, Vasil Lalov wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am currently in the process of building a small mini grid of 2
> > clusters. One of them is already up and running and condor is working
> > fine.
> >
> > The second cluster is a diskless node cluster on which there is no
> > Condor installation at this point.
> >
> > I need to know if I need to install Condor on each diskless compute node
> > as a condor execute machine?  Since the entire OS of the compute nodes
> > is loaded from the head node, will installing Condor on the head node as
> > master, execute and submission machine be enough?
>
> Some years ago we had a single Condor installation on a NFS volume (but
> the number of nodes was ~10 only). Since there is the opportunity to have
> individual config files for the nodes (selected by hostname) you still
> can configure everything as you like. (DAEMON_LIST, START, NETWORK_INTERFACE
> for the head node[s])
>
> It might make sense to move some stuff to ramdisks to reduce the load on
> the network... at the expense of available memory though, so there's a tradeoff.
>
> Cheers,
> Steffen
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