[Beowulf] What services do you run on your cluster nodes?

Bernard Li bernard at vanhpc.org
Tue Sep 23 10:35:51 PDT 2008


Hi John:

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:54 AM, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:

> That's a reason why I'm no great lover of Ganglia too - it just sprays
> multicast packets all over your network.
> Which really should be OK - but if you have switches which don't perform
> well with multicast you get problems.

Ganglia by default uses multicast, but has the option of doing unicast
 -- just FYI :-)

Thanks,

Bernard



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