Re: Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Clustering over LAN or WAN is good, but aren't high speed links 'icing :on the cake'? It's possible to be able to do either/or isn't it? : :Joey Algorithms designed to operate over a WAN will work just as well over a high speed link. But algorithms that are designed to work on high

Re: Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hmm, : :from time to time I try to imagine how it would be when DragonFly's :clustering became reality. : :Is the goal to be able to just stick in a new DragonFly box and then the :power of the "cluster machine" increases? I mean, I wonder if there :would be any configuration requirements for

Re: make -jn not necessarily helpful

2006-03-14 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Tue, March 14, 2006 12:03 pm, Freddie Cash wrote: > Try moving the make clean to the end, and rebooting between runs. > That will eliminate any caching or disk buffering that may be > happening. That step I pasted repeated with different -j levels, so a 'make clean' happened after and before ev

Re: Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Sascha Wildner
Matthew Dillon wrote: Yah. Blades with MP cpus or multi-core capable cpus on them. Just a blade server, then. The difference between blade based clustering and the type of clustering that we want to do is that we want to be able to cluster efficiently over a LAN or WAN (i.e. n

Re: Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Joseph Garcia
Matthew Dillon wrote: :It actually appears to be more of a four node blade enclosure rather :than an MP box. : :Signed, :Jason Watson Yah. Blades with MP cpus or multi-core capable cpus on them. Just a blade server, then. The difference between blade based clustering and the ty

Re: make -jn not necessarily helpful

2006-03-14 Thread Joseph Garcia
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: Out of curiousity, I thought I'd try running make buildworld with the -j option in a few different configurations to see what difference it made. I know it's supposed to speed up the process by a certain amount because of the parallel processing, but there's no direct

Re: Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
:It actually appears to be more of a four node blade enclosure rather :than an MP box. : :Signed, :Jason Watson Yah. Blades with MP cpus or multi-core capable cpus on them. Just a blade server, then. The difference between blade based clustering and the type of clustering that w

Re: Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Jason Watson
On Mar 14, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote: : :I hope this won't be counted as advertisement, but these system looks :very interesting: :http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30258 :http://www.tyan.com/products/html/clusterservers.html : :-- :reezer :Sorry for bad English :-( Those a

Re: Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :I hope this won't be counted as advertisement, but these system looks :very interesting: :http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30258 :http://www.tyan.com/products/html/clusterservers.html : :-- :reezer :Sorry for bad English :-( Those are just big MP boxes with lots of cpus. That's not t

Re: make -jn not necessarily helpful

2006-03-14 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, March 13, 2006 8:52 pm, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > Out of curiousity, I thought I'd try running make buildworld with the > -j option in a few different configurations to see what difference > it made. I know it's supposed to speed up the process by a certain > amount because of the paralle

Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Christian 'reezer' Sturm
I hope this won't be counted as advertisement, but these system looks very interesting: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30258 http://www.tyan.com/products/html/clusterservers.html -- reezer Sorry for bad English :-(

Re: Assembly in DragonFly

2006-03-14 Thread joerg
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 12:47:56PM +0530, Karthik Subramanian wrote: > 2. Ran "as -o hello.o hello.s; ld -o hello hello.o; ./hello", and sawthis on > the console: > ELF binary type "0" not known.Abort trap Sure. DragonFly uses the ELF ABI note as you found out later to decide which kernel ABI to

Re: Assembly in DragonFly

2006-03-14 Thread Emiel Kollof
Op dinsdag 14 maart 2006 08:17, schreef Karthik Subramanian: > Hi Folks, > After installing DragonFly on a spare box at work, I was trying out asimple > "Hello World" in assembly, and found that one needed to do alittle more > than "as -o hello.o hello.s; ld -o hello hello.o" to getit to work; here

Re: make -jn not necessarily helpful

2006-03-14 Thread Richard Nyberg
At Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:52:21 -0500 (EST), Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > > Out of curiousity, I thought I'd try running make buildworld with the -j > option in a few different configurations to see what difference it made. > I know it's supposed to speed up the process by a certain amount because >