John Hearns wrote:
2008/10/1 Donald Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
It's foreseeable that holding an 8GB install
image in memory will be trivial, but that will be a few years in the
future, not today. And we will need better VM and PTE management to
make
it efficient.
Hmmmm.... can I forsee Puppy Linux HPC Edition ????
http://www.puppylinux.org/
Being half serious here, is it worth trying to get one of these
slimmed-down distros to the state where it will run an HPC job?
Oh, and in addition to a barebones install for our contemplative
cluster, they have a onebones install which cuts out the GUI (cue more
dog puns).
http://www.puppylinux.com/pfs/ looks interesting...
Starts to sound like Rocks. Which I'll finish installing on a small
cluster tomorrow and will form more opinions then. First impressions
(really second: I've had another small cluster up with it for 3 years)
is that it's seamless for the scientists once they figure out where
their apps are. I've been pretty happy with it: It's been mostly "set
and forget".
Bogdan, we're in a similar position, save I also do some of the science.
Our latest cluster serves users in Atmospheric Science, Chemistry,
Math, Statistics, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Computer Science,
Oceanography and Nuclear (or was that "nuculeer"?) engineering... Most
are somewhat astute to computation but not one rises to the point of
"computational scientist" in being able to combine extensive computer
science/engineering knowledge with their much more important discipline
knowledge. Hiding the details from them, but meeting their needs at the
same time is a constant challenge.
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Gerry Creager -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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