On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:39:50PM +, John Hearns wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 14:47 -0500, Douglas Eadline wrote:
I have heard stories about some of the first vacuum tube computers where a
a full time technician walked around inside the computer
and replaced blown out tubes -
Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Jim Lux wrote:
That's sort of the model, though.. Except with the disk drive built
in. There ARE small network attached storage devices available,
intended for the home server market, but last time I looked (about a
year ago), they all seemed to
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:13:38AM -0600, Eric Shook wrote:
Hi Bruce,
Our University is also looking into these racks. We have also looked at
other vendors with similar liquid cooling and something called
Spraycool technology (limited in deployment) among others. I would
also be
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:07:36PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote:
1-Regarding OS, is Fedora Core 64bit a good option for AMD Athlon 64 X2
4200+?
sure. distros are just desktop decoration, and anything recent will
perform equally well. you do probably want 64b, but that's not rare.
Think
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:10:15PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
If you are a Linux Weekly News subscriber (and if you're not you
probably should be, it's a great news resource) you can read about it
here (should be
resource is great indeed. forcing them me to pay money for the
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:39:59AM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote:
On Friday 29 December 2006 04:24, Robert G. Brown wrote:
I'd be interested in comments to the contrary, but I suspect that Gentoo
is pretty close to the worst possible choice for a cluster base. Maybe
slackware is worse, I
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:45:19PM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote:
I must say, though, that you have the wrong idea about scientists. My
kids regularly make fun of my near-complete lack of hair, not it
excessive length...;-)
rgb
Sorry, we based our ideas on Greg Lindahl :)
Once again,
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 10:01:58PM -0500, Mike Davis wrote:
Joe is right about the stability factor.
Stability, stability, stability.
Mike Davis
Debian: released every 18 months - two years. Guaranteed to support
previous version for a year after release. Seamless upgrade path -
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:39:44AM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:44:47AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
17,740 packages in Debian main. Pure 64 bit distribution. Some
Beowulf-type software already packed. Runs out of the box on
Alpha/Sun/AMD64 (and will deal
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:22:59PM -0400, Peter St. John wrote:
Be all that as it may, Im wondering what laptop to get. There are two
issues: one, that it used to be scary to get all the device drivers for
linux (maybe not anymore); and two, that one would prefer not to pay the tax
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 04:35:27PM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 at 2:12pm, Robert G. Brown wrote
Try installing two year old Centos AT ALL on six-month-old hardware, and
I think that there is a very high probability that
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:20:03PM -0400, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
_Real_ rocket scientists use a pencil, paper and slide rule if they
don't have access to an analog artillery ranging computer :)
(And possibly HTP and kerosene :) )
[My grandfather was a British rocket scientist and later a
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:59:41PM +0200, Jon Tegner wrote:
Robert G. Brown wrote:
Fedora installs in the future will be done by yum. Yum enables
something that is truly marvelous for people who have to install through
thin pipes (e.g. DSL
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:53:04PM +0100, Jürgen Kabelitz wrote:
Hi,
We had the same problems with a cluster of 40 nodes. The motherboard has
problems with great IO. We have some test programs they used only the cpu and
make no or less IO. These programmes runs and runs. But when you
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:57:10AM -0400, Eric Moore wrote:
Jon Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I found this:
This German Flag Officer is to be accompanied by a Communications
Officer who is familiar with the German Naval W/T organization and
who is to bring with him the current
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:54:35AM -0400, Joe Landman wrote:
A few questions (not necessarily expecting a response):
POSIX?
VERBS?
Kernel latency and scheduler control?
Don't mistake me for a w2k8 apologist. I reamed them pretty hard on the
lack of a real posix infrastructure (they
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:18:04PM +0530, arjuna wrote:
Hello All,
Thank you for your detailed responses. Following your line of thought,
advice and web links, it seems that it is not difficult to build a small
cluster to get started. I explored the photos of the various clusters that
have
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:30:19PM -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Geoff Jacobs wrote:
Yes, it is possible to kill yourself with low voltage. You have to
really work at it and/or be unlucky, but it can be done. A DC resistance
from leg to arm of 100 ohms or so is hard to
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 05:39:23PM +0100, Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote:
On Monday 09 February 2009 21:37:23 David Mathog wrote:
The uber-pile is a bit of a straw man. I'm pretty sure that a 40U stack
of (typical) 1U or 2U servers would squish the one(s) on the bottom,
Absolutely. At Stanford, I
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 08:15:06PM -0400, Joe Landman wrote:
Mark Hahn wrote:
from my position, XFS was a semi-fringe option for people who
distrusted ext3 for some reason. (and there were a few solid ones,
mainly just 8TB.) going forward, I expect to use ext4
I wouldn't use ext3 for
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 01:50:59PM -0500, Matt Lawrence wrote:
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
Interesting. Since I'm stuck using Red Hat and IBM, I've been hit by
this on a 10TB storage shelf. Red Hat will only offer me ext3 and 8TB.
IBM storage on a Megaraid card which handles
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:18:06PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote:
I'd like to add that Dell's DKMS (Dynamics Kernel Management System) is
great:
http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms
HP has its own distro, but is still trying to use a traditional approach
to making patches patches available.
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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:26:19PM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2009, Chris Dagdigian wrote:
Yeah, well, stupidity is a universal problem, even in the
government...;-) But this is why CBAs and smart people (working
together) are so important.
_Especially_ in the government
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:23:38AM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote:
You guys all read Slashdot, right?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/06/1755216
and
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2008/01/new-startup-looking-to-set-up-floating-data-centers.ars
-- greg
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:35:34PM -0800, Greg Lindahl wrote:
For reasons complicated to explain, I want to run a Fedora kernel on
CentOS 5. Does anyone have any words of wisdom or pointers to webpages
for people who've done this?
-- greg
p.s. missed you guys at SC, I was stuck racking
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:04:32PM -0600, Gerald Creager wrote:
A combination of mostly kernel improvements, and some useful middleware
as RedHat and by extension, CentOS, seek to get farther into the cluster
space.
gerry
Maybe also some licensing breaks on large volume licensing. Red
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:49:30AM +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
Clustering isn't the only one that oracle is doing something with
turns out they are also doing something with OpenOffice.org. Its
been forked to LibreOffice.
Would really love to know what they are up to.
There's a
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 02:03:57PM -0400, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
On 08/21/2013 12:45 PM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
Sorts in general.. Good idea.
Yes, we'll do a distributed computing bubble sort.
Interesting, though.. There are probably simple algorithms which are
efficient in a single
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:45:05AM +0530, Bhabani Samantray wrote:
Hi everyone
Can I make beowulf cluster using RHEL 5.4. If I can make then please
send me the complete instruction from scratch level.
Like what to install, and how to install and what to configure etc...
I
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 09:45:41AM +0100, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
Dear all,
in some of the discussions here I came across the 'lifespan of a cluster'
argument. What I was wondering is: how long is that in HPC for number
crunching?
Is it 3 years (end of warranty), 5 years (making good
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:30:52AM -0400, Joe Landman wrote:
On 06/25/2014 09:51 AM, Gavin W. Burris wrote:
Hi, Jonathan.
Unfortunately, the reality of the HPC code market is that, quite
often, the OS required by the application for support is often at
odds with what you describe above.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 01:41:18PM +1100, Christopher Samuel wrote:
Hiya!
On 13/02/15 19:00, Olli-Pekka Lehto wrote:
I’d be interested to hear if people have deployed or upgraded
CentOS/EL 7 on their clusters and what their experiences are? Also in
the more general sense, what kind of
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 02:48:33PM -0500, Joe Landman wrote:
You do remember this is the Beowulf list, originally comprised of
researchers who decided to be their own sysadmins/hardware vendors/etc in
order to get their research done, right?
Even in today's mainly post-big-iron age,
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 07:50:52AM -0500, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote:
On 02/13/2015 01:00 AM, Olli-Pekka Lehto wrote:
I'd be interested to hear if people have deployed or upgraded CentOS/EL 7
on their clusters and
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 09:42:25AM +1000, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> On 19/05/16 20:44, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
>
> > The upgrade in Debian is working really well. You really can
> > install a machine once and then you can upgrade it to the latest
> > OS without much issues. [...]
>
>
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 06:20:37AM +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
> I am just wondering what distribution of choice would one use for their
> cluster? Would one go for a source based distro like gentoo or a
> precompiled one like Centos7?
>
I have argued for Debian in the
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:26:37PM +0200, jaquilina wrote:
> Not wanting to hijack this thread hassle anyone tried to cluster raspi 3's?
> What distribution would you recommend for a pi3 cluster?
> Out of curiosity would somethinglike gentoo and it's cross development setup
> get you what you
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 02:36:22PM +, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
> This comes up every few years..
> Someone at work was complaining at lunch that the latest laptops have nice
> screens but don’t have much memory, largely because they want to keep the
> battery size reasonable ("thin is in”)..
On 20/05/2019 14:45, Alexander Antoniades wrote:
> I just wanted to point out that Fedora, while having a lot of volunteers
> is primarily driven by Red Hat employees, so I don't think forking it is
> a viable option. If you want to get an idea of what forking RHEL/Centos
> would be listen to an
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 09:50:13PM +, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> what I never understood is: why are people not using Debian?
>
I don't know - I suggested it 20 years ago when rgb launched his Extreme Linux
and I use it daily - but not on HPC.
I've added some comments on
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 05:59:11AM +, Jonathan Aquilina via Beowulf wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Im probably a bit late to the party. What is going on with CentOS? As I am
> not quite understanding whats happening.
>
> To be fair I am at the point where I am running through my mind the creation
>
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 01:17:27PM +, Jonathan Aquilina via Beowulf wrote:
> I should give LFS a try but I always tend to get stuck somewhere.
>
> I need to figure out how to clone the fedora or centos package repos to at
> least get myself started I think.
>
Fedora provide a script to
The problem with forking CentOS (or even just seeking to continue building it)
is that you will have all the same issues you have and no-one behind you to
help fix them.
I work (more or less) as a sysadmin - have done for years - and have been
driven to distraction by Red Hat/CentOS at work,
The folks over at Devuan have chosen to name their next code release (based
on upcoming Debian 11) beowulf. I don't think it will impact this list - but
you never know.
For anyone runnng Debian on HPC / in labs: the latest Debian point release
10.10 was yesterday. Debian 11 should be released in
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 09:46:30AM -0400, Joe Landman wrote:
> On 6/21/21 9:20 AM, Jonathan Engwall wrote:
> > I have followed this thinking "square peg, round hole."
> > You have got it again, Joe. Compilers are your problem.
>
>
> Erp ... did I mess up again?
>
> Here's where awesome compiler
On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 03:35:39AM +, Lux, Jim (US 7140) via Beowulf wrote:
> Yeah, but it is quiet enough to put in your office and not drive your office
> mate out?
>
A colleague got hold of 2x 4U servers with 56 cores and stacked them with
disk and memory then found a wheeled 9U
On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 12:01:38PM +, John Hearns wrote:
> All good Jim. However to be allowed to benchmark these systems you must
> pronounce the CPU as "Milawn"
> As I said elsewhere, they are getting pretty far north now. Is the plan to
> cross the Alps?
>
You'd have to ask a Hannibal or
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 12:43:27AM +0100, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> interesting topic and quite apt when I look at the flooding in Germany,
> Belgian and The Netherlands.
>
> I guess there are a number of reasons why people are not doing it. Discarding
> the usual "we never
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 03:51:27PM -0700, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> On 3/23/23 3:12 pm, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:
>
> > honestly is there any better task for a system admin than coming up with
> > good hostnames?
>
I've never had the honour to name a large cluster. Grandad was a
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 02:27:23PM -0400, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:
> Beowulfers,
>
> By now, most of you should have heard about Red Hat's latest to eliminate
> any competition to RHEL. If not, here's some links:
>
> Red Hat's announcement:
>
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