Re: ENVI/IDL on Linux Cluster [message #37832] |
Fri, 30 January 2004 12:07 |
Liam Gumley
Messages: 473 Registered: November 1994
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"Jack Yin" <jack.c.yin@boeing.com> wrote in message
news:e77a15f9.0401301049.22bf6706@posting.google.com...
> We have recently migrated from a Sun server to a Linux Cluster which I
> don't have much experice with. ENVI/IDL was installed on the head
> node of the Linux Cluster. I have been told by the system
> adminstrator that since the head node is used to managed the cluster,
> I should not use ENVI to process large data files for that would bog
> down the head node. I tried anyway and it does take a very long time
> to bring up a large file.
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> I have since found out we should have ENVI/IDL installed on all nodes.
> My question now is how can I be sure when I start ENVI/IDL, I am
> starting from an idle client node and not from the head node of the
> cluster?
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> Does anyone have experience with this?
IDL> spawn, 'uname -n', hostname
IDL> print, hostname
aqua
Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/
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