This Wiki Web is the holding place for user contributed documentation relating to the distributed computing tools and software available within Informatics. The intention is that this web will move to a different URL, ie something other than wiki.inf.ed.ac.uk, so please bear this in mind when linking to it.

All official documentation can be found at http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/systems

There is a mailing list for local users of Condor and GridEngine - you are strongly urged to subscribe at http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/distributed-computing

Technologies

• Beowulf is the technology used to build compute clusters from standard Linux machines

Local Resources

• GridEngine is the job control system running on the dedicated compute clusters.

• Condor is the job control system running on desktop machines

• GPFS is a parallel filesystem currently under test in the School.

DistributedComputingSitetools