On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Peter St. John wrote:
Of course the additional expense keeps your question interesting for
now. I would imagine that if something is done to cover **software**
errors, which are aeternal :-), such as periodic checkpointing, then
adding memcheck stuff as Tony suggests seems reasonable.
But I just wanted to poke that ("nt goon") PoV; myself, I defer all
issues involving miniscule billiard balls rushing along amazingly thin
pipes, to the "electricians" (as if such a thing as "electricity"
could exist in the Real World, how absurd).
Interesting words coming from a body that is, when all is said and done, little more than a big ball of electricity riding around on a infinitesimal skeleton of tiny massive balls of nuclear force, that are subsquently being pushed onto a similar arrangement of electricty that meta-encodes them, interacts with other electrical charges in wavelike ways, are ultimately absorbed by still more electricity floating around on its nuclear skeleton, and thereby transform themselves into extremely peculiar standing waves that echo those words in the meta-structure of electricity we fondly call "the brain". What is this Mind of which you do not speak but which speaks You, but Electricity, given a very transient and very lovely form? rgb
Peter On Nov 15, 2007 6:55 PM, David Mathog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:There are some pretty good deals in the low end of the mother board and CPU ranges right now. Not what you folks would buy, but something I'd consider to replace the old Athlon MP's in our 2U cases, one of which just blew up (or the Tyan motherboard, it hardly matters as I don't have spares for either part). It looks like one can buy a dual core Athlon64, 1 Gb of memory, 1G Lan, and low end VGA on a consumer motherboard for around $150. Maybe less. With the recycled case, fans, PS, and disks that would be an inexpensive way to more than resuscitate the dead node(s). The one thing that I don't see cheap anywhere is ECC RAM and motherboards that support it. Any of you running clusters without ECC? Has the lack of error correction been a problem? Thanks, David Mathog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf_______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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