thealchemist
Junior Member
Hi,
As part of my work I have 5 computers all of which use Windows XP Pro (they are NOT linked to any server) and are independent of each other. I use them to run some proprietary software (some FORTRAN based executable) which are reasonably long and CPU and memory intensive. So am limited by number of processors on each machine (4 in each case).
So far I keep a track of which job has finished and then submit another job to run as and when the processor gets free. At a time only 4 jobs are running (besides other processes which are OS-based). So obviously there are times when I I am looking for a utility I can install (or may be a batch script) which I can use to manage the jobs equivalent to the ones we have available for Unix or VAX/VMS machines/clusters.
Another help I am looking for is how to make a cluster out of my 5 machines ... is there a way that I can link up these 5 machines to avoid logging into each individually and managing jobs on each separately? Will I need to install a server OS or is there any other way to do it? In short, how can I manage jobs remotely on 5 different machines without a cluster? If this is not possible what is the easiest way to convert it into a cluster?
Thanks in advance.
Al.
As part of my work I have 5 computers all of which use Windows XP Pro (they are NOT linked to any server) and are independent of each other. I use them to run some proprietary software (some FORTRAN based executable) which are reasonably long and CPU and memory intensive. So am limited by number of processors on each machine (4 in each case).
So far I keep a track of which job has finished and then submit another job to run as and when the processor gets free. At a time only 4 jobs are running (besides other processes which are OS-based). So obviously there are times when I I am looking for a utility I can install (or may be a batch script) which I can use to manage the jobs equivalent to the ones we have available for Unix or VAX/VMS machines/clusters.
Another help I am looking for is how to make a cluster out of my 5 machines ... is there a way that I can link up these 5 machines to avoid logging into each individually and managing jobs on each separately? Will I need to install a server OS or is there any other way to do it? In short, how can I manage jobs remotely on 5 different machines without a cluster? If this is not possible what is the easiest way to convert it into a cluster?
Thanks in advance.
Al.
