LoadLeveler plug-in

Anar here...

I've just released a new PoD beta. In this version we have a new job manager plug-in implemented.
Now PoD supports IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler LoadLeveler!

A special thanks to Simon Heisterkamp (Copenhagen, Denmark), who helped a lot in development of the plug-in.


If you want to try this build, please download the latest Beta: http://pod.gsi.de/download.html
In case of Problems: http://pod.gsi.de/support.html

Condor plug-in for PoD

Anar here...

As it was promised, I am very happy to release today an early beta of a Condor plug-in for PoD.

Before saying anything else I would like to show a screenshot-demo :)

In order to test the plug-in I have used a Condor cluster at CERN (special thanks to Wen Guan, who has helped me with that).

Now the demo. 

I will show PoD CLI, since the Condor plug-in doesn't support GUI yet.

First of all, same as always, PoD server needs to be started:

than I submitted 6 PoD jobs, using a Condor job manager (this is done via the plug-in). I submit only 6, because we were in hurry and there are only 2 worker nodes on which my account was enabled.

After a few seconds we can check whether there are already PROOF workers online and how many of them:

That's it! Our dynamic PROOF cluster is ready:

So, from now on PoD supports Condor resource management system as well. Which makes it 6.

Six supported RMS.

PoD supports: SSH, LSF, PBS (PBSPro/OpenPBS/Torque), Grid Engine (OGE/SGE), Condor, and gLite.

All most popular RMS are supported. If you need PROOF for your users, just get one of these RMSs and PoD will handle the rest ;)

No need to administrate, to setup and support any PROOF cluster. Each user can setup its own PROOF cluster on the fly using PoD just on demand.

The stable release of PoD, which will be shipped with the Condor plug-in is scheduled for the first week of January, 2011.

I think there is no reason to be hurry and to do the release before the upcoming Holidays ;) We rather can use this time to do more tests and improve User's manual...

But you shouldn't wait until the stable is out. Try the Condor plug-in right now and help us to improve the product. If you want to check this release out, please use the latest nightly build:

http://pod.gsi.de/releases/pod/nightly/

Contact us in case of any problem: http://pod.gsi.de/support.html

PoD supports OGE/SGE

Some more updates on the upcoming PoD v2.4 ;)

I finally finished the implementation for GUI of the Oracle Grid Engine (OGE) plug-in. Since a month OGE was supported by PoD, but only CLI. Now, starting from PoD v2.3.100.gac84 the OGE is fully supported in both, PoD GUI and PoD CLI.

As you can see, the interface is very simple and easy to use:

Using PoD GUI you can submit PoD jobs to an OGE cluster, check status of jobs, and kill jobs :)

PoD also supports an OGE option file. If you want to provide some additional Grid Engine options to your PoD jobs submitted to OGE cluster, to select some specific resource or something like that, than PoD gives you this possibility via an OGE option file. Just create a file $POD_LOCATION/etc/Job.oge.option and write valid OGE options in it. If the file exists, than PoD will automatically use it while submitting OGE jobs.

See qsub man page of OGE for more information on the option file (search for the "-@" option in the man page).

TORQUE/PBS plug-in

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I've just finished the first stable version of a TORQUE/PBS plug-in for PoD.

One more plug-in which will be shipped by default with PoD distributions, additionally to gLite and LSF.

Worth to mention, that the LSF plug-in is already in production for ALICE users at GSI.

From now on PoD user can also make use of PBS facilities and setup private PROOF clusters on the fly using PoD.

The plug-in will be released with PoD v2.1.4 and currently it is in a beta.

I am looking for test users, who has access to PBS clusters and want help and try/test PoD. Any feedback is appreciated. ;)

If you want to test PoD (with pbs), just drop me an email on A.Manafov@gsi.de.

You can also just download the latest nightly and give it a try. More information here.

BTW, v2.1.4 will also come with a new command line interface. So now finally we have both, GUI and CLI ;)

The next plug-in is already in development - it is SSH plug-in. With help of it, any machine on which you have ssh access can become your PROOF worker on demand. ;)

See you soon...