Re: [Beowulf] bsd implementation?

2007-05-08 Thread Fred Youhanaie
Mark Thompson wrote: I was wondering if linux was the only os that is practical to implement a beowulf cluster with...it seems to me that BSD would be good for this and I know dragonfly BSD is working toward providing this natively...my question is that what are the limitations presented when

Re: [Beowulf] Top500 power consumption

2010-02-18 Thread Fred Youhanaie
On 23/12/42 20:59, John Hearns wrote: As I remember, the Top500 site now lists power consumption of systems, there cenrtainly is an section on the site from a few years ago discussing this. However I could not extract any figures. Does anyone know the magic buttons to press? I did find the

Re: [Beowulf] Forward: RE:

2012-05-03 Thread Fred Youhanaie
Graham I also cannot connect to www.beowulf.org. I think it may be a routing/firewall issue near the beowulf.org end. I emailed the list owners, beowulf-ow...@beowulf.org, a month ago but did not receive any replies, I'm not sure if the email did get through, it did not bounce! However, if

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner shutdown

2013-04-01 Thread Fred Youhanaie
Any other ideas, or does anyone know the real reason driving this? I'm sure HPCWire or some other news source will provide a more detailed explanation soon. I think the clue is in the date of the article ;-) ___ Beowulf mailing list,

Re: [Beowulf] Are disk MTBF ratings at all useful?

2013-04-19 Thread Fred Youhanaie
On 19/04/13 00:01, mathog wrote: High end SATA and SAS disks claim MTBF values that work out to over 100 years, and yet it is a common observation that certain models fail at rates entirely inconsistent with those values. For instance, 75% of all drives of one model dead in 6 years.

Re: [Beowulf] Linux page cache and pdflush

2013-04-26 Thread Fred Youhanaie
On 26/04/13 16:53, Hearns, John wrote: This long paper, by a former RH employee, does cover the subject area pretty well: Drepper, What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf (Yes, the title is homage to the Goldberg paper!)

Re: [Beowulf] computational cost (was TeX/LaTex for Ubuntu)

2013-06-25 Thread Fred Youhanaie
On 25/06/13 20:28, John Hearns wrote: Joe you should enroll in the School for Poetic Computation http://sfpc.io/ nah, I think he's probably more of a computational poetics type ;-) http://www.sfu.ca/chaosmos/ ___ Beowulf mailing list,

Re: [Beowulf] Beowulf beer

2013-07-22 Thread Fred Youhanaie
On 22/07/13 09:48, Hearns, John wrote: It had to happen I suppose - the perfect beverage for quenching the thirst of tired Beowulfers after a hard day in the server room. Yes, John, the order of the tasks is very important! First you builds the cluster

Re: [Beowulf] Any open source OS like IBM's CNK?

2014-04-14 Thread Fred Youhanaie
On 11/04/14 14:26, C. Bergström wrote: Hi I'm exploring tiny OS, in-house homebrew and anything non-heavy (aka linux) for Xeon PHI. Does anyone on the list know of any open source work for something which is comparable to IBM's CNK (Cray also has their compute node OS, but I don't remember

Re: [Beowulf] Executable architecture type

2016-12-01 Thread Fred Youhanaie
This one? http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2016-May/033691.html Cheers, Fred Youhanaie On 01/12/16 10:50, John Hearns wrote: Please forgive me for asking about an already discussed topic. There was a thread on here recently, regarding utilities which decode the exact Intel

Re: [Beowulf] ethernet performance testing

2017-03-17 Thread Fred Youhanaie
Brendan Gregg's web site is worth visiting: http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html You may even be tempted to print out one or more of the diagrams and stick them on the wall ;-) Cheers, f. On 17/03/17 14:33, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: This is a bit of a blast from the past

Re: [Beowulf] Working for DUG, new thead

2018-06-13 Thread Fred Youhanaie
On 13/06/18 18:07, Jonathan Engwall wrote: John Hearne wrote: > Stuart Midgley works for DUG?  They are currently > recruiting for an HPC manager in London... Interesting... Recruitment at DUG wants to call me about Low Level HPC. I have at least until 6pm. I am excited but also terrified.

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread Fred Youhanaie
Does enabling ssh compression with -C help? Fred Youhanaie On 06/06/18 22:28, David Mathog wrote: Off Topic. I need to do some work on a system 3000 miles away.  No problem connecting to it with ssh or setting X11 forwarding, but the delays are such that my usual editor (nedit) spends far too

Re: [Beowulf] Lustre Upgrades

2018-07-27 Thread Fred Youhanaie
On 27/07/18 09:01, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote: I can just see HPC types being made to climb the rigging in a gale... ... and they would be called DevOpSailors Happy SysAdmin / DevOpSailor Day :-) http://sysadminday.com/ ___ Beowulf

Re: [Beowulf] Lustre Upgrades

2018-07-27 Thread Fred Youhanaie
[mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Fred Youhanaie Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 5:10 PM To: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Lustre Upgrades Yep, this could be considered as a form of COTS high volume data transfer ;-) from https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/faqs/ (the very last item

Re: [Beowulf] Lustre Upgrades

2018-07-26 Thread Fred Youhanaie
d that's basically what this is. I wonder what it costs (yeah, I know I can "Contact Sales to order a AWS Snowmobile"... but...) Jim Lux (818)354-2075 (office) (818)395-2714 (cell) -Original Message- From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Fred Yo

Re: [Beowulf] Jupyter and EP HPC

2018-07-27 Thread Fred Youhanaie
Jim I'm not a jupyter user, yet, however, out of curiosity I just googled for what I think you're looking for. Is this any good? https://ipyparallel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ I have now bookmarked it for my own future use! Cheers, Fred On 27/07/18 21:56, Lux, Jim (337K) wrote:

Re: [Beowulf] Lustre Upgrades

2018-07-24 Thread Fred Youhanaie
Nah, that ain't large scale ;-) If you want large scale have a look at snowmobile: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ They drive a 45-foot truck to your data centre, fill it up with your data bits, then drive it back to their data centre :-() Cheers, Fred On 24/07/18 19:04, Jonathan

Re: [Beowulf] Hacked MBs It was only a matter of time

2018-10-05 Thread Fred Youhanaie
So you can detect the implants using AI ... https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/hardware/this-tech-would-have-spotted-the-secret-chinese-chip-in-seconds All you need is a trustworthy computer for the AI computations! Cheers, Fred On 05/10/18 13:23, Douglas Eadline wrote: From a

Re: [Beowulf] Large amounts of data to store and process

2019-03-04 Thread Fred Youhanaie
Hi Jonathan, It seems you're collecting metrics and time series data. Perhaps a time series database (TSDB) is an option for you. There are a few of these out there, but I don't have any personal recommendation. Cheers, Fred On 04/03/2019 07:04, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: These would be

Re: [Beowulf] Large amounts of data to store and process

2019-03-04 Thread Fred Youhanaie
. Have you used postgresql for such type's of data and how has it performed? Regards, Jonathan On 04/03/2019, 10:19, "Beowulf on behalf of Fred Youhanaie" wrote: Hi Jonathan, It seems you're collecting metrics and time series data. Perhaps a time series data

Re: [Beowulf] software for activating one of many programs but not the others?

2019-08-20 Thread Fred Youhanaie
Hi I think modules can help here - http://modules.sourceforge.net/ This is usually packaged as "environment-modules" under most distros. Typically you would set up small config files for each package/version. In the file you normally "prepend" the package directory to PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH,

Re: [Beowulf] ganglia on CentOS 8?

2020-04-02 Thread Fred Youhanaie
One thing that come to my mind is selinux. Is it enabled and enforcing? getenforce # check status setenforce 0 # to set to permissive, if enforcing Cheers, Fred On 02/04/2020 19:23, David Mathog wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2020, Jonathan Engwall wrote: About getex:GNU nano 4.6