Re: --Parallel Computing w/beowulf cluster
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- Subject: [mg42576] Re: [mg42472] --Parallel Computing w/beowulf cluster
- From: Omega Consulting <info at omegaconsultinggroup.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:13:37 -0400 (EDT)
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At 02:36 AM 7/10/2003, Eric Bittner wrote: >This is addressed mostly to people using the Parallel Computation Tool >kit. > >The problem that I have is that I want to run a task using a series of >remote nodes that are behind a firewall or part of a beowulf cluster >but using a local frontend on my desktop computer. >i.e envision the following topology: > >(me.edu)----(beowulf.edu) > | > + (node1.beowulf.edu , node2.beowulf.edu, >..... ) > > >where node#.beowulf.edu are nodes within the beowulf cluster >or behind a firewall that cannot be accessed directly via the internet >but can be accessed from within by logging on to the main node of the >cluster. > >Is it possible to set up a RemoteSlave from my desktop to > the main node (beowulf.edu) >and have it launch RemoteSlaves on the internal nodes? > >The alternate (which works fine) is to open an X11 window for a >remote front-end on beowulf.edu and go from there. The trouble is that >the cluster itself is located at a remote location (across campus) and >I hate >to waste the bandwidth and cycles keeping a window open. > >Any suggestions? >Thanks, >Eric Bittner > > >-- >Prof. Eric R. Bittner >Department of Chemistry >Univ. of Houston >ph: 713-743-2775 fax: 713-743-2709 >bittner at uh.edu >http://k2.chem.uh.edu/bittner/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >------------------- >The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon >it, >can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the >universe >to do. -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) Probably the simplest thing to do is connect the front end on your machine (me.edu) directly to a kernel on your master machine (beowolf.edu). http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/kernel/configure/general/30.html Then, you can launch the slaves in the normal way. -------------------------------------------------------------- Omega Consulting "The final answer to your Mathematica needs" http://omegaconsultinggroup.com