Fwd: [Mauiusers] August Newsletter
Rayson Ho
raysonlogin at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 2 12:26:27 PDT 2002
FYI,
Rayson
--- help at supercluster.org wrote:
> MAUI Newsletter - August
> Optimizing your Compute Resources
> ______________________________________________________
> Supercluster.org/Cluster Resources Inc.
> ______________________________________________________
>
> Dear user,
>
> In today's newsletter we are announcing MAUI 3.2.4, availability
> of a PDF version of the MAUI SCHEDULER 3.2 Administration manual,
> integrated support of MAUI SCHEDULER in Clubmask and more.
>
> *** View online at
> http://supercluster.org/maui/newsletters/aug2002.html ***
>
> News/Announcements:
>
> 1. MAUI SCHEDULER 3.2.4 development advances
> 2. MAUI SCHEDULER Administration Manual now available in PDF format
> 3. Maui support integrated into Clubmask (Installation and
> management tool)
> 4. Bug Tracking - Please use Bugzilla
> 5. CLUSTER RESOURCES, INC. - Free consultation offer
>
>
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> MAUI 3.2.4 Development Advances
>
> Has it appeared like things were a little quiet at the Supercluster
>
> site? Forget about it! Things have never been busier! The most
> significant round of enhancements ever undertaken is nearing
> completion
> so as to provide you with an infrastructure capable of supporting
> even
> more powerful scheduling facilities. What's in Maui 3.2.4? For
> starters, new job preemption facilities, node availability policies,
> improved job priority control, and an entirely new way of managing
> node
> allocation policies. Also, this version includes better security,
> generalized resource manager interfaces, and new XML based user
> interfaces. Maui 3.2.4 is currently in the tail end of its alpha
> test.
> Please contact us at help at supercluster.org if you would like to
> participate or if you have any feedback regarding use of this
> version.
>
> What's over the horizon? Maui 3.2.5 is just getting started.
> What
> does it hold? Current plans include support for 'per job' task
> distribution and node allocation policies, support for resource
> 'preferences', built-in web server interface for direct display of
> common
> commands, threading to catch more resource manager failures, support
> for
> SGE (really, its coming, the SGE developers promised the needed
> interface!), PBS 5.2, Loadleveler 3.1, and IA32/IA64. Further,
> enhancements will be in place in the areas of backfill, the
> allocation
> management interface, and QOS support. This version should be
> available
> before the Supercomputing '02 conference
>
> If you have special interest in any of these areas of
> functionality,
> please drop us a note so we can incorporate your ideas.
>
>
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> MAUI SCHEDULER Admin Manual now available in PDF
> (http://www.supercluster.org/documentation)
>
> Due to broad market acceptance of MAUI SCHEDULER, use of the
> Administration Manual has grown very significantly, with over 10,000
> hits
> a month. In order to save you time we have gone through the work of
> providing this document in PDF form as well. As MAUI SCHEDULER is
> updated, we will update both the PDF and HTML versions. If you chose
> to
> print the almost 300 page document or elements of it, be sure to
> visit
> the documentation site often so as to learn about the latest
> additions/modifications.
>
> Also, due to the continued rate of development, 'per version' admin
>
> manuals will be made available soon. Links will be added to these
> per
> version admin manuals as they become generally availalble.
>
>
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> Maui support integrated into Clubmask (Installation and management
> tool)
>
> Clubmask is an installation and management software toolset intended
> to
> perform the following tasks:
> 1. Installation of a cluster from raw hardware.
> 2. Management of a cluster in terms of collections of machines, or
> roles.
> 3. Job Manager with full Maui scheduling support.
>
> To find more about this toolset please visit:
> http://.clubmask.sourceforge.net
>
>
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> Bug Tracking - Please use Bugzilla
>
> As mentioned in the previous newsletter, due to the growth of users
> of
> the MAUI SCHEDULER, we would like to encourage users to take
> advantage of
> the Bugzilla bug tracking system found at
> www.supercluster.org/help_desk.
> This will allow better tracking, and improved service. We hope the
> mauiusers mailing list will continue to be used as a conduit for
> sharing
> ideas, configurations, and needs as well as asking questions in
> general.
>
>
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> CLUSTER RESOURCES INC. - Free consultation offer
>
> Call CLUSTER RESOURCES, INC. today (801) 873-3400 and get a free
> consultation on what MAUI SCHEDULER and SILVER can do for you and how
>
> best to deploy it within your environment. The Catch: It's Free, but
> we
> will better understand your needs and you will better understand what
> it
> can do for you and how our services can make your implementation more
> successful.
>
> The founders of Supercluster.org formed CLUSTER RESOURCES INC., in an
>
> effort to provide customers access to professional services
> supporting
> their use of MAUI SCHEDULER, & SILVER. See www.clusterresources.com
> for details.
>
>
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> Tips & Tricks:
>
> Special Reservation Flags (SRFLAGS) - *New flags added in MAUI
> SCHEDULER 3.2
>
> This allows you to associate attributes/flags to special
> reservations, so
> that for example you could limit access to resources within a
> reservation
> to only those who explicitly request it by name (byname). Other
> flags
> include *singleuse, *slideforward and force. Lists must follow a
> colon-delimited format. For more details see the Managing
> Reservations
> section of the online admin manual.
>
> ResourceLimitPolicy - New policy in MAUI SCHEDULER 3.2
>
> This allows you to specify how MAUI SCHEDULER should handle jobs
> which
> utilize more resources than they request. For example, you could
> cancel
> all jobs that exceed their requested memory limits, or you could
> suspend
> all jobs that exceed their possessor limits. The format is as
> follows
> <POLICY>:<ACTION>:<RESOURCE>[:<RESOURCE>]... Permitted policies
> include
> ALWAYS, EXTENDVIOLATION, or BLOCKEDWORKLOADONLY. Actions may include
>
> CANCEL, REQUEUE or SUSPEND, and resources may be one or more of the
> following: PROC, DISK, SWAP, or MEM.
>
>
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> Highlight/Did you Know:
>
> Did you know downloads of MAUI SCHEDULER have increased more than 60%
> per
> year with over 1,500 downloads in just the last 4 months.
>
> ______________________________________________________
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