On 06/06/2013 04:40 AM, Hearns, John wrote: > > > > > No, that's indeed what happens on most supers I've seen. Even if some > > codes are capable of running to the (almost) full scale of the > > machine, such large runs are quite marginal. They often take place > > before the system enters production, to demonstrate its capabilities, > Well said. > > > > > > Along similar lines, has Google or Amazon ever published their > batch job > > > capacity (it must be in petaflops...) > > > That means high latencies and grumpy MPI. > > Grumpy MPI. Now there's a name for a new open source project, if I > have ever seen one.
You spelled that wrong. It's spelled GruMPI® > > Let's start it now - a new MPI implementation which is intended for > clouds and geographically > separated machines with high latencies between them. The MPI > implementation will cope with > Network interruptions of a long duration, but will of course produce > copious grumpy error messages. > > And we can have mailing lists which are famed across the Internet for > their spikiness and flame wars. > I vote we invite Victor Meldrew to be the project's new figurehead. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Meldrew > > I vote for Grumpy Cat (or should I say GruMPI® cat?) : http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3uqt51/ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
