From sacadmin Fri Oct 5 12:37:12 2007 Received: from newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (newsunmail1brm.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.62.245]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l95JbB8o007321 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:37:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (nwk-avmta-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.6]) by newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l95JX0FN030661 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:lsarc@sun.com>; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:33:00 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JPG00J01ECO5100@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for lsarc@sun.com (ORCPT lsarc@sun.com); Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:34:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dm-sfbay-02.sfbay.sun.com ([129.146.11.31]) by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JPG00GF4ECN9I40@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for lsarc@sun.com (ORCPT lsarc@sun.com); Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sundance.sfbay.sun.com (sundance.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.94.120]) by dm-sfbay-02.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l95JXx2g003762 for ; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sundance (sundance [129.146.94.120]) by sundance.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with SMTP id l95JQU5i001683 for ; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:26:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Dean Stanton Subject: 2007/579 Shared Visualization 1.1's SGE integration fast track To: lsarc@sun.com Reply-to: Dean Stanton Message-id: <200710051926.l95JQU5i001683@sundance.sfbay.sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.5.3_06 SunOS 5.9 sun4u sparc Content-type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-MD5: l1jYeBIl/HST2ufe4QUFNA== X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 Status: RO Content-Length: 6179 The "3D Server Technologies" case LSARC/2006/547 includes extensions to Sun Grid Engine (SGE, formerly Sun N1 Grid Engine, N1GE) that allow SGE to select a graphics board, as well as a host for a user's job. This shipped as part of Sun's "Shared Visualization Software" product. These components are controlled by Sun. This fast track covers changes to Sun's components of Sun's "Shared Visualization Software" since its release 1.0 (case LSARC/2006/547). The 1.1 release is focussing on usability improvement (and bug fixes). Some of the SGE extensions are for use with Sun's Scalable Visualization solution, which is hardware and software available through Customer Ready Systems (CRS) to use as a graphics cluster. Materials are in the case directory's materials subdirectory. This message is the case directory's proposal file (and will be improved in response to questions or issues). This Fast Track will timeout at 6PM Pacific on Friday, October 12. (A related fast track LSARC/2007/578 was submitted yesterday.) New components -- SGE Integration add_to_complex script added to automate addition of graphics resources to SGE's vocabulary. config_gfx script added to help admins set graphics resource values RUN.glxgears An SGE job submission script that invokes glxgears example program (common on Solaris and Linux hosts). RUN.glxspheres Same for our project's glxspheres example. sc/ Components to interface Shared Visualization SW and SGE to Sun Scalable Visualization solutions from CRS. pe.conf Create an SGE "parallel environment" named "sc" (for scalable or subcluster) to control Scalable Vis. jobs master Script users can submit to SGE to start a parallel job using SGE's "sc" parallel env. queue.template Input to a Scalable Vis. subcluster tool. my1_3x2/ Example cluster (or subcluster) configuration These interface Shared Visualization SW and SGE to Sun Scalable Visualization solutions from CRS. chromium.conf Controls Chromium over Infiniband chromium_ether.conf Controls Chromium over ethernet wall.conf Controls DMX over Infiniband wall_ether.conf Controls DMX over ethernet queue.conf File to create & configure SGE queue New functionality -- SGE Integration Additional resources added to SGE to aid integration with Scalable Vis: headnode sc_cols sc_rows New functionality -- SGE Advance Reservation facility Both GUI and command line can now ask for E-mail to be sent when reservation is confirmed, begins, completes, is cancelled, or N minutes before it starts. Reservations now include their hostname and E-mail orders. See materials/Reserve for more info. New components -- Visualization Report package SUNWvrpt and sun-vis-report.noarch.rpm Purpose of this package is to dump everything we might need to know (about the OS, our SW versions, X server config, env. vars) to debug whether a problem is in the installation, configuration, user's use of our SW, or an actual bug in the SW. It offers: vis_report Script for Solaris and Linux, dumps to stdout Updates to LSARC/2006/547's questionnaire (Q4.2) Shared Vis. 1.0's systems can include NVidia's Quadro Plex external graphics boxes attached via cable to a x8 or x16 PCI-Express interface card. Shared Vis 1.1 also supports NVidia's Tesla boxes, which are similar in concept, but don't output video. They are intended for general-purpose use of the graphics processor units (GPGPU), but also support OpenGL P-buffer rendering, as we'd do on a graphics server. (Q9.2 Interface Table) +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | EXPORTS | | add_to_complex command name Uncommitted add_to_complex.txt | | SGE resource names for Scalable Vis. Uncommitted add_to_complex.txt | headnode, sc_cols, sc_rows | | config_gfx command name & arguments Uncommitted config_gfx.txt | | vis_report command name & arguments Uncommitted vis_report.txt | | RUN.glxgears job submission script Uncommitted Product docs | RUN.glxspheres job submission script suggest using | them to verify | installation | | sc/pe.conf SGE parallel environment config Uncommitted SGE's qconf.1 | manpage explains | contents | | sc/master parallel environment job script Uncommitted Scalable Vis. | solution docs | | sc/queue.template Uncommitted Scalable Vis. | solution docs | | my1_3x2 directory Uncommitted Scalable Vis. | contains Scalable Vis example solution docs | configuration files | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Q9.3 Identify names and contents of packages, directories,...) Package names from our implementation of 2006/547's TCR (these package names are the same in 1.1 as in our 1.0 release): Solaris Package Description --------- ---------------------------------------------------------- SUNWsgear Root package (/etc/init.d/sgear) for Solaris < 10. SUNWsgeau Common (user) package creates $SGE_ROOT/ar SUNWsgearsmr Root packages for SMF for Solaris >= 10. Additional Package Description --------- ---------------------------------------------------------- SUNWvrpt vis_report script (dumps visualization environment, versions) Linux RPM names Description ---------------------------------- ------------------------------------ sun-vis-report.noarch.rpm vis_report dump script like SUNWvrpt sun-n1ge-3D.noarch.rpm SGE graphics add-on like SUNWsge3D sun-n1ge-adv_reserv.noarch.rpm Adv. Reservation facility like SUNWsgear* See Also Case directory's materials/ subdirectory contains: manifest Reserve add_to_complex.txt config_gfx.txt vis_report.out From sacadmin Tue Oct 16 09:46:52 2007 Received: from sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (sunmail2sca [129.145.155.234]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9GGkq1h006396 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:46:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l9GGhVpI029767 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:lsarc@sun.com>; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:43:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JQ00060JJSK5300@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for lsarc@sun.com (ORCPT lsarc@sun.com); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:43:32 -0600 (MDT) Received: from sfbaymail2sca.sfbay.sun.com ([129.145.155.42]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JQ0001KUJSJ4Y40@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for lsarc@sun.com (ORCPT lsarc@sun.com); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:43:31 -0600 (MDT) Received: from sundance.sfbay.sun.com (sundance.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.94.120]) by sfbaymail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.10/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l9GGhVD0001379 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sundance (sundance [129.146.94.120]) by sundance.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with SMTP id l9GGa1OB010017 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:36:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:36:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Dean Stanton Subject: LSARC/2007/579 timed out To: lsarc@sun.com Reply-to: Dean Stanton Message-id: <200710161636.l9GGa1OB010017@sundance.sfbay.sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.5.3_06 SunOS 5.9 sun4u sparc Content-type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-MD5: A/fdc3VKOiG8yelVgdHBkA== X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 Status: RO Content-Length: 103 LSARC/2007/579 (Shared Visualization 1.1's SGE integration) fast track has timed out and is approved.