>>>>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:54:44 -0700
>>>>> "JRP" == John R Pierce <John> wrote:
JRP> Mag Gam wrote:
>> At my university we have 50 computers in the lab. We would like
>> to use a scheduler to schedule our fluid models, and I was
>> wondering what is a good suggestion?
>>
JRP> you might look at using one of the scientific clustering
JRP> packages, like Oscar, which implements and manages an MPI
JRP> cluster. this of course assumes your fluid model software is
JRP> written to use MPI
If you're going for cluster software you might consider
http://www.rocksclusters.org/
It's even based on CentOS.
Here at our place we have a dedicated cluster with Rocks. In addition
I took the SGE-rpm from the distribution and installed it on our
regular (CentOS) workstations so that jobs can be scheduled on these
machines too