Tight SGE integration with Solaris Zones

Posted by chris Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:09:48 GMT

DanT has pushed out version 1.0 of a new project at within the HPC Community over at OpenSolaris.org.

From the announcement ...

"Project Berlin is an attempt to integrate Grid Engine with Solaris Zones in a tight fashion...without making changes to the Grid Engine binaries themselves...The basic idea is that instead of having the execution daemon fork and exec a shepherd process, we replace the shepherd process with a proto-shepherd. The proto-shepherd attempts to determine in which Zone the job should run. If no Zone can be determined, the proto-shepherd simply execs the shepherd, and things work normally.

Read more and access the download of "Project Berlin 1.0 alpha" here:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/hpcdev/announcements/

Build a SGE testbed using Solaris zones

Posted by chris Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:18:12 GMT

Thanks to Andreas for discovering a useful Wiki document on using Solaris 10 Zones to build a containerized Grid Engine testbed:

http://wiki.c0t0d0s0.org/index.php/How_to_create_a_GridEngine_testbed

"unlimited" stack limit on Solaris

Posted by Rayson Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:01:00 GMT

SGE by default sets the job’s stack limit to “unlimited”, but a lot of Solaris users find that their applications no longer work under SGE.

This blog entry explains the issue in detail