[GE users] mixing 6.0u7 and 6.0u10
Andreas.Haas at Sun.COM
Andreas.Haas at Sun.COM
Thu Feb 8 13:02:46 GMT 2007
Hi Dan,
I believe Dev merely asks whether a DRMAA library from a concrete
Grid Engine update version could instantly tell the application
if there is a GDI version protocol conflict.
Regards,
Andreas
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Daniel Templeton wrote:
> Not sure I see the value of standardizing internal data formats. It would
> also be impossible from a political standpoint. More useful is standardizing
> the interfaces, and that's what *many* of the OGF working and research groups
> are doing, such as DRMAA, JSDL, SAGA, etc. The trick is getting vendors to
> adopt them.
>
> Daniel
>
> Dev wrote:
>> Just a "Would like it to be this way" thought. Isn't it possible to frame a
>> standard like DRMAA for the way the DRMS store their internal info? I know
>> its not that easy :-((
>>
>>
>> /Dev
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> */Daniel Templeton <Dan.Templeton at Sun.COM>/* wrote:
>>
>> Brooks,
>>
>> In general, it's a bad idea to mix SGE versions. In many cases, SGE
>> itself will prevent it. The protocol used to communicate with the
>> qmaster (GDI) is versioned. Any time that protocol changes, the
>> version
>> gets revved. To be able to talk to each other, both components
>> must be
>> using the same version of the protocol.
>>
>> Here's a blog post I wrote about the topic a while back:
>>
>> http://blogs.sun.com/templedf/entry/the_secret_of_the_gdi
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> Brooks Davis wrote:
>> > Is it possible/supported to mix updates of SGE? In the past it's
>> worked
>> > for me, but with a u7 qmaster, I'm seeing execd not start and
>> qstat fail
>> > with:
>> >
>> > error: can't unpack gdi request
>> > error: error unpacking gdi request: bad argument
>> > failed receiving gdi request
>> >
>> > I get similar errors when stoping the execd. At this point it looks
>> > like I'll need to install an older version and have a flag day
>> in the
>> > future.
>> >
>> > -- Brooks
>> >
>> >
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