[SCore-users] Re: [score-info] score 5.0.1

[Shinji Sumimoto]

Hi.

From: "Martin Gourdeau" <mgourdeau at allegrasolutions.com>
Subject: [score-info] score 5.0.1
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:38:43 -0400
Message-ID: <4869374B8C43AC408B7469F050F8AC2E27D9 at tsunami-1.allegrasolution.allegrasolutions.com>
mgourdeau> My name is martin gourdeau, I work for Allegra Solutions.
mgourdeau> For the past month now I have been working on a 128 node
mgourdeau> beowulf, nodes are 2x1.9 gig athlons with 3 gigs of ram.
mgourdeau> They are interconnected thru 100Mbit and Myrinet 2k...
mgourdeau> 
mgourdeau> The cluster will be powered by Score/pbs, which is already running
mgourdeau> great. 
mgourdeau> 
mgourdeau> I have a couple of issues that I would like to discuss with you
mgourdeau> guys, I am pritty sure you can resolve my problems in no time
mgourdeau> because you have probably heard them many times before, and
mgourdeau> I cant seem to find eny information on the web about Score.
mgourdeau> 
mgourdeau> First, How can I tell eit to start using eth2...?

Currently, EIT is only working with eth0, so if you want to use eth1 or eth2..
you install SCore using eth0 and then change from eth0 to eth2.

What is your problem?  

mgourdeau> Second, I have been running tests with scrun on 64 machines
fine 
mgourdeau> but as soon as I try to start a scout session including node 67 
mgourdeau> the session freezes at 65, Then I tryed to start a session with ony 
mgourdeau> number 67 and it freezes,but with only node 65 it works at least 
mgourdeau> the problem is isolated to that node.  I can ssh into it but it 
mgourdeau> just wont respond to a scout session!  What is also interesting 
mgourdeau> is that pbs works fine on all 128 nodes...  

Uh... how about the results of following command?

1)
% sout -g pcc -f node64 -n 8

2)
% sout -g pcc -f node65 -n 8

3)
% sout -g pcc -f node66 -n 8

4)
% sout -g pcc -f node67 -n 8

5) 
create followin file
======= file_a ======
node64
node65
node66
node67
node68
=====================
% sout -F file_a

6) 
create followin file
======= file_b ======
node68
node67
node66
node65
node64
=====================
% sout -F file_b

Shinji.
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Shinji Sumimoto.