[Techtalk] going green

[Lana Brindley]

On 07/01/2010 07:59 AM, Maria McKinley wrote:
> I am getting pressure from my boss to make our servers/computers "more
> green", but am at a bit of a loss as to what to do. Not even sure if
> this is something to tackle in software or hardware. It seems what I
> want, at least for the cluster, is something that keeps track of demand,
> and turns on or wakes up computers when more processing power is needed,
> but not sure how to implement something like this. Currently, people
> look on a web page to see which computers are being used the least, and
> then log onto those computers to do computations. But, to make the other
> scenario work, would need some central place to log on, and then have
> the computer decide where to send the process, and whether to "wake up"
> a computer. Any ideas or experience with this sort of stuff out there?
>
> thanks,
> maria

Hi Maria,

In terms of scheduling jobs to run on under-utilised systems, you could 
do worse than a grid setup. Something like this:
http://www.redhat.com/mrg/grid/

(In the interests of full disclosure, I quite literally wrote the book 
on MRG Grid: 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_MRG/1.2/html/Grid_User_Guide/index.html)

L

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