Has anyone integrated LabVIEW with Grid Engine ?

[Mark the Parallel Programmer]

Hi

We're running LabVIEW (v7.x) on Windows PCs and large Fortran programs on Linux-based Beowulf-type cluster.  We'd like to use the UI features of LabVIEW to make it easy for our scientists to:
(a) configure job parameters (I think we know how to do this)
(b) use a LabVIEW form to capture information required by Grid Engine when a parallel job is submitted, mainly the number of processors to use, memory requirements, licences to use, that sort of thing;
(c) have LabVIEW send the information to Grid Engine and submit the job for execution.

Has anyone done this ?  Has anyone (whether you've done this or not) got any good advice for where to start.  I'm pretty savvy about Grid Engine, and Fortran programs, but most of my recent development experience has been on Linux machines.

Regards

[SachaE]

Hi,

  unfortuantely I think the forum's participants not posting back on here answers the question - no-one that we know of has tried this, and in the UK office, we'd not heard of Grid Engine until now. I've done a couple of searches and they don't really show up the interfaces that can be made to Grid Engine.

I'm assuming it will accept a UDP packet or a TCP link to it so you can pass it information. LabVIEW is capable of performing both so this shouldn't be an issue.

Sorry there's not much information on this. If you could supply more information on Grid Engine's capabilities to be talked to from other applications across the network (assuming Grid Engine is running on Sun) then perhaps we could attack some of the specifics instead?

Thanks

Sacha Emery
National Instruments (UK)

[Mark the Parallel Programmer]

Hi Sacha

Yes, I'd concluded that the silence on the discussion forum indicated that no-one has done this yet.  It loooks like I'll have to wrestle with the API to Grid Engine myself.  I'll post again when (if ?) I learn anything, but it won't be for a few weeks.

Regards
Mark