Ian Stokes-Rees wrote:
I understand Alan Sill from TTU is also interested in knowing how
much
of the grid software stack will run on OS X, in particular server
packages -- he has successfully compiled and installed most of the
OSG
client-side software to run on OS X. And as I said, either Clemson
or
RENCI (IIRC) are already running Condor pools which are accessible by
OSG, however these aren't officially published, so you have to know
some
secret incantation to put into your classad to get them to run there.
In general, OS X machines will work great in a Condor pool.
In OSG, you can not (currently) run a homogeneous Mac OS X pool. The
issue is that the full OSG Compute Element stack is not available for
that platform.
However, you can build a heterogeneous pool. The node you install
the CE
on can be a supported flavor of Linux, and then you can have Mac OS X
compute nodes behind that CE node. The biggest issue with this
solution
is having jobmanager-fork and jobmanager-condor map to different
architectures. For example, if a user wants to build a piece of
software for your CE, he is likely to use jobmanager-fork. When he
starts submitting jobs they will fail because the binary he built is
for
the wrong architecture. The same problem goes for things like
information providers (your CE will be advertised as a Linux CE). That
being said, Clemson, RENCI and others on OSG have this setup. If you
look in the Condor.pm jobmanager adapter, you will find that by
default,
the Condor jobmanager sets requirements on the jobs to stay within the
same architecture, and the same file system domain. You can break
out of
this requirement by submitting your own requirements. For example, to
submit a job to run on a Windows machine, add this to the Globus RSL:
( condorsubmit = (universe vanilla)(requirements
'OpSys==\"WINNT51\" && Arch==\"INTEL\"')(should_transfer_files
YES)(when_to_transfer_output ON_EXIT) )
--
Mats Rynge
Renaissance Computing Institute <http://www.renci.org>
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