Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer(Meeting)

2004-04-08 Thread vivek khurana
--- Manpreet Singh Nehra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Have you guys what will you be running on the supercomputer you building.. Building it is not actually useful till you can put it to some use... or do you even plan to benchmark it This is what we are supposed to decide in

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer(Meeting)

2004-04-08 Thread Manpreet Singh Nehra
Have you guys what will you be running on the supercomputer you building.. Building it is not actually useful till you can put it to some use... or do you even plan to benchmark it This is what we are supposed to decide in the meeting. Let us know your availability for this sunday 1300

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-08 Thread Shehjar Tikoo
Hi I agree, if its not FLOSS, then it's probably not for us.I missed that point. We'll have to look harder.Starting now. Thanks Shehjar __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer(Meeting)

2004-04-08 Thread Raj Mathur
Manpreet == Manpreet Singh Nehra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Manpreet [snip] Manpreet Have you guys what will you be running on the Manpreet supercomputer you building.. Building it is not actually Manpreet useful till you can put it to some use... or do you even Manpreet plan

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer(Meeting)

2004-04-08 Thread vivek khurana
--- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manpreet == Manpreet Singh Nehra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We shall run the most popular supercomputer application ever: LINPACK! We can try other things also such as genetic computing. Regards Vk = Disclamer The facts expressed here belong to

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-08 Thread Raj Shekhar
Shehjar Tikoo wrote: Hi all, Two area(s) we can use the cluster for: 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [snip] Might I suggest using the cluster for something more mundane. A few uses from top of my head - Compressing a 3 gb file using bzip2 - Resizing 500 tiffs and converting them to jpegs with

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer(Meeting)

2004-04-07 Thread Manpreet Singh Nehra
linuxlingam wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 21:36, vivek khurana wrote: Hi! Okay, guyz time to plan for the project. Lets meet this sunday 10th April 2004 at 4:00 p.m (1600 hrs for those who use boeing for travelling) at Delhi haat, open air theater. loody hot these days. you guys wanna

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-07 Thread Shehjar Tikoo
Hi all May I suggest a few links on clusters. Cluster Computing Info Centre http://www.buyya.com/cluster/ Intro to clusters http://sucs.swan.ac.uk/~aggie/linux/clusters/ Thanks Shehjar __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-07 Thread Shehjar Tikoo
Hi all, Two area(s) we can use the cluster for: 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Search for ET Intelligence, from UCB.there's a Linux version of there software availible for download.We'll have to integrate it with the ISO's. 2. Mersenne Prime Number search. They too have a linux download. We could

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-07 Thread vivek khurana
--- Shehjar Tikoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Two area(s) we can use the cluster for: 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Search for ET Intelligence, from UCB.there's a Linux version of there software availible for download.We'll have to integrate it with the ISO's. 2. Mersenne Prime

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-07 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Shehjar, Shehjar == Shehjar Tikoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shehjar Hi all, Two area(s) we can use the cluster for: Shehjar 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Search for ET Intelligence, from Shehjar UCB.there's a Linux version of there

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-06 Thread Gaurav Jain
- Original Message - From: vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer --- Gaurav Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] a brainstorming

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-06 Thread vivek khurana
--- Gaurav Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] a brainstorming session is required before the event. lets plan asap. also, i would suggest to use 1. standard linux distro with good mpi library (i am fond of lam) with network boot 2. a bootable cd with preconfigured settings but then

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-06 Thread Manpreet Singh Nehra
Anindya Roy wrote: Hi Any place will be suitable for me. and My contact Number is 9811565558 art of your project though I cannot contibute any resources except myself.. I did go through the book Building Linux clusters : Oreilly about a year ago... which I was not able to implement due to

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-06 Thread Manpreet Singh Nehra
Anindya Roy wrote: Hi Any place will be suitable for me. and My contact Number is 9811565558 I would to be a part of your project though I cannot contibute any resources except myself.. I did go through the book Building Linux clusters : Oreilly about a year ago... which I was not able to

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-06 Thread vivek khurana
--- Manpreet Singh Nehra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would to be a part of your project though I cannot contibute any resources except myself.. I did go through the book Building Linux clusters : Oreilly about a year ago... which I was not able to implement due to lack of resources.

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer(Meeting)

2004-04-06 Thread vivek khurana
Hi! Okay, guyz time to plan for the project. Lets meet this sunday 10th April 2004 at 4:00 p.m (1600 hrs for those who use boeing for travelling) at Delhi haat, open air theater. If any of the enthusiast has problem wth this timing can write in reply to this thread. Alternatively you can

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer(Meeting)

2004-04-06 Thread Manpreet Singh Nehra
vivek khurana wrote: Hi! Okay, guyz time to plan for the project. Lets meet this sunday 10th April 2004 at 4:00 p.m (1600 hrs for those who use boeing for travelling) at Delhi haat, open air theater. Well can we have the meeting in the morning about 10:00-11:00 since I have a class in the

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer(Meeting)

2004-04-06 Thread vivek khurana
--- Manpreet Singh Nehra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Well can we have the meeting in the morning about 10:00-11:00 since I have a class in the evening then suggest an alternate venue. i don't think delhi haat is open at 10 in in the morning If any of the enthusiast has problem wth

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer(Meeting)

2004-04-06 Thread Manpreet Singh Nehra
vivek khurana wrote: --- Manpreet Singh Nehra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Well can we have the meeting in the morning about 10:00-11:00 since I have a class in the evening then suggest an alternate venue. i don't think delhi haat is open at 10 in in the morning What time does it

RE: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer(Meeting)

2004-04-06 Thread Akshay Lamba
vivek khurana wrote: --- Manpreet Singh Nehra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Well can we have the meeting in the morning about 10:00-11:00 since I have a class in the evening then suggest an alternate venue. i don't think delhi haat is open at 10 in in the morning What time

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-06 Thread Raj Mathur
Vivek == vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vivek [snip] Vivek shout YU DONT'T NEED TO HAVE CLUSTERING KNOWLEDGE TO BE Vivek PART OF THIS PROJECT /shout. All you need is the drive. Which, hard disk, CD or floppy? ;) Anyway, may I invite you to my place this Saturday for the

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer(Meeting)

2004-04-06 Thread linuxlingam
On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 21:36, vivek khurana wrote: Hi! Okay, guyz time to plan for the project. Lets meet this sunday 10th April 2004 at 4:00 p.m (1600 hrs for those who use boeing for travelling) at Delhi haat, open air theater. bloody hot these days. you guys wanna bake? could someone

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-06 Thread linuxlingam
On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 23:14, Raj Mathur wrote: Anyway, may I invite you to my place this Saturday for the meeting? Say, 4pm? We can get together and work out the logistics, and take a decision on the best place to hold the flashmob. If everyone's amenable to meeting at Munirka I can post

Re: Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-06 Thread vivek khurana
--- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vivek == vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vivek [snip] Vivek shout YU DONT'T NEED TO HAVE CLUSTERING KNOWLEDGE TO BE Vivek PART OF THIS PROJECT /shout. All you need is the drive. Which, hard disk, CD or floppy? ;) Cd

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-05 Thread Gaurav Jain
- Original Message - From: linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 12:22 AM Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 22:27, Gaurav Jain wrote: i volunteer to use my

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-05 Thread Gaurav Jain
- Original Message - From: vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer --- linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks gaurav jain. er

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-05 Thread LinuxLingam
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:23, Gaurav Jain wrote: let me make proper arrangements, and if number of participants/cpu is more clear, proper arrangements for power, cooling, refereshments can be arranged. we have a cluster of smp systems here, are will be most happy to participate. cheers

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
- Original Message - From: linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] dismantle it after a few hours. obviously. elementary my dear watson !! ;-) someone from academia/maths/ has to help demo a cool process on it and then we dismantle it. this is just for kicks raj. could try the Mersenne Prime

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-04 Thread Shehjar Tikoo
Heres a volunteer if I do'nt have to format my hard disk. That bootable CD option seems like a better idea for ppl like me. Great idea. Shehjar __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer.(From Anindya Roy)

2004-04-04 Thread Anindya Roy
Hi All The Idea Sounds really Very Cool. Can I help you guys in any ways? I have some experience on setting up different Linux Clusters and also I am sitting on a good bandwidth so can volunteer for downloading stuffs. Regards Anindya Roy PCQLabs

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer.(From Anindya Roy)

2004-04-04 Thread vivek khurana
--- Anindya Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Idea Sounds really Very Cool. Can I help you guys in any ways? I have some experience on setting up different Linux Clusters and also I am sitting on a good bandwidth so can volunteer for downloading stuffs. You can start downloading

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-04 Thread Gaurav Jain
i am willing to take up the responsibility. - Original Message - From: vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 8:52 AM Subject: RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer --- vivek khurana [EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-04 Thread Gaurav Jain
i volunteer to use my office in gurgaon if its convinient for everyone, i will make the arrangements. - Original Message - From: vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 8:41 AM Subject: RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-04 Thread linuxlingam
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 22:27, Gaurav Jain wrote: i volunteer to use my office in gurgaon if its convinient for everyone, i will make the arrangements. thanks gaurav jain. er... could your infrastructure handle about 100 computers and its cooling? network, backup, etc? do you have existing

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-04 Thread Akshay Lamba
thanks gaurav jain. er... could your infrastructure handle about 100 computers and its cooling? network, backup, etc? do you have existing computers (with cdroms) that could also be plugged into this? _ Bandwidth available at my

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-04 Thread vivek khurana
--- linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks gaurav jain. er... could your infrastructure handle about 100 computers and its cooling? network, backup, etc? do you have existing computers (with cdroms) that could also be plugged into this? Thanks again Guarav. So, now when we are oing

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer.(From Anindya Roy)

2004-04-04 Thread Raj Mathur
Vivek == vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vivek --- Anindya Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Idea Sounds really Very Cool. Can I help you guys in any ways? I have some experience on setting up different Linux Clusters and also I am sitting on a good bandwidth so can

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-03 Thread Akshay Lamba
This sounds really exciting LL. Any knowledgebase available on flashmob? I can bring a box with rh9 on it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of linuxlingam Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 12:13 AM To: Linux-Delhi mailing list Subject: [ilugd]

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-03 Thread Akshay Lamba
dear all, this is an inspiration for a great idea. iluggers could get together, say for the may 2k4 meet, bring their linux boxes, wire them up, and create a 'flashmob' supercomputer. i could invite the press and write a press release on this. someone could talk to tv channels to cover this.

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-03 Thread Anirban Biswas
Hi great idea if I am in Delhi I sure bring my PC coz I am very eager to learn see how a cluster works. Anirban Biswas. PS: But LL in previous mail you said you are not build/intrested on cluster ;-) -- How should I know if

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-03 Thread Akshay Lamba
you could read thru the article at the url above. i don't have *any* supercomputer cluster howto skills, yet. abhishek on this list had some ideas, but he's migrated to hyderabad. am sure there are others on this list who could show us how to do this. i know that there's a cd of knoppix, called

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-03 Thread linuxlingam
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 01:36, Akshay Lamba wrote: LL have a look at this. http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/ Couple of points I gather from the article: 1. They're going to release an iso after the even. We can use the same iso for ilug event. in just 12 hours this event will

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-03 Thread linuxlingam
just read the faq on flashmobcomputing. http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/misc/faq in 1998, in germany the fire department blew snowy-cold air into the room to keep the computers cool! yeouch! that means, we need a building with enough pre-existing computers, loads of spare plugs, and good

[Fwd: Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer]

2004-04-03 Thread linuxlingam
[forward] YO!!! I support this...and i can dedicate time for the same Just tell me...when and where...i can get 2 pc's...to demo SMP Clustering... Gimme 2 weeks to prepare for the same Regards Eswar [/forward] *** that makes two volunteers so far, and counting. :-) LL

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-03 Thread Raj Mathur
LL == linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LL [snip] LL sandip, do you think you could help on this? supreet has LL experimented a bit with clusters i recall. who all would like LL to research and volunteer to set this up, please? i think this LL is a fantastic idea.

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-03 Thread linuxlingam
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:08, Raj Mathur wrote: LL == linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LL [snip] LL sandip, do you think you could help on this? supreet has LL experimented a bit with clusters i recall. who all would like LL to research and volunteer to set this up,

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-03 Thread vivek khurana
--- linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] dismantle it after a few hours. obviously. someone from academia/maths/ has to help demo a cool process on it and then we dismantle it. this is just for kicks raj. check the urls posted earlier. [snip] This is a pretty good idea. I had

RE: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-03 Thread vivek khurana
--- vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip]date of event and start workin for this a month in advance. Just adding, i beieve we will need a some one (with knowledge of clustering) to head the whole project. Regards VK = Disclamer The facts expressed here belong to everybody,