[Beowulf] [EXTERNAL] Re: pdsh

Lux, Jim (US 7140) james.p.lux at jpl.nasa.gov
Mon Nov 30 22:11:36 UTC 2020


No particular reason - I'm used to pdsh. I don't know that clustershell buys me any capabilities I don't have with pdsh.  If I run into clunkyness with pdsh, then clush might be an alternative.



On 11/30/20, 10:59 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Bernd Schubert" <beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org on behalf of bs_lists at aakef.fastmail.fm> wrote:

    Out of interest, why don't you switch to clush? I see all sites
    switching to that.

    - Bernd

    On 11/30/20 4:37 PM, Lux, Jim (US 7140) via Beowulf wrote:
    > Yes, indeed.. I was commenting on pdsh, but apparently, pdsh is getting changes to work better with SLURM (or, following the changes in SLURM?) - I didn't dig into it too much.
    > I was focusing on getting pdsh and pdcp running on rPi - and it's trivially easy - since it's in the standard apt-get repos.
    > 
    > While this little project isn't really "cluster computing" in a HPC sense, it is in the "cluster management" sense - given brand new rPi out of the box, how do you configure a batch of them in a developmental environment (i.e. it's not like I have a complete build that works, that I can just make copies of on SD cards and boot from it).
    > 
    > You develop something, get it working on one node, and then want to roll it to the other nodes. And that's where pdsh is wonderful (particularly, because the nodes don't have keyboards, just touch screens)
    > 
    > On 11/30/20, 6:35 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Paul Edmon" <beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org on behalf of pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
    > 
    >     Slurm is definitely still under active development with a vibrant 
    >     community.  SchedMD is the one mainly driving its development.  In fact 
    >     the 20.11 version just came out with some nice new features like 
    >     scrontab, which I am super excited for.
    > 
    >     -Paul Edmon-
    > 
    >     On 11/29/2020 11:26 PM, Lux, Jim (US 7140) via Beowulf wrote:
    >     > Sure enough.. that looks current-ish.
    >     >
    >     > It's not like there's any significant development activity, is there? (well, aside from the parts that have seen no changes in 10 or 17 years, which I think is wonderful), but there appears to be some stuff with SLURM that's seeing activity. (which is interesting, I actually use SLURM at work)
    >     >
    >     >
    >     > On 11/29/20, 5:46 PM, "Beowulf on behalf of Chris Samuel" <beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org on behalf of chris at csamuel.org> wrote:
    >     >
    >     >      Hi Jim,
    >     >
    >     >      On Sunday, 29 November 2020 2:31:18 PM PST Lux, Jim (US 7140) via Beowulf
    >     >      wrote:
    >     >
    >     >      > Today,
    >     >      > https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://code.google.com/archive/p/pdsh/__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!dFMkhJVoxIz1L_0qH30CvOEybxVLReGgpj2_EFcBGHi_kidO8lc-nCNQCXsRwKbYJD0mjBw$
    >     >      > is where to go.
    >     >
    >     >      I think code.google.com is a read-only archive now, it stopped in 2016 (see
    >     >      https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://killedbygoogle.com/__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!dFMkhJVoxIz1L_0qH30CvOEybxVLReGgpj2_EFcBGHi_kidO8lc-nCNQCXsRwKbYE67FU3o$  for more info).  It looks like pdsh is now on
    >     >      Github here:
    >     >
    >     >      https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/chaos/pdsh__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!dFMkhJVoxIz1L_0qH30CvOEybxVLReGgpj2_EFcBGHi_kidO8lc-nCNQCXsRwKbYqP0NbZM$
    >     >
    >     >      All the best,
    >     >      Chris
    >     >      --
    >     >        Chris Samuel  :  https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://www.csamuel.org/__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!dFMkhJVoxIz1L_0qH30CvOEybxVLReGgpj2_EFcBGHi_kidO8lc-nCNQCXsRwKbY88XwEog$   :  Berkeley, CA, USA
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