Re: [Beowulf] Re: pci-e network adapters

2006-03-24 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 07:02:53AM -0700, Maurice Hilarius wrote: > Don't confuse bandwidth with latency. > GbE has latency that is much greater than Myrinet, old or new. Also a good example of why comparing peak bandwidth can be misleading: at medium-sized messages, Myrinet has much higher bandw

[Beowulf] Re: pci-e network adapters

2006-03-24 Thread Maurice Hilarius
"Dietrich Heese-Boutin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any one have success running gig-e through the pci-e bus? > Yes, of course, However be careful as quite a few do not yet support "channel bonding" aka "teaming" aka "Link aggregation" Intel recalled their dual port fibre GbE NICs over this issu

Re: [Beowulf] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: CCL: Wireless cluster]

2006-03-24 Thread Luc Vereecken
Hi John, If the application is sufficiently coarsed-grained, i.e. sufficiently embarassingly parallel, it will work imo. It will work more like a grid environment than a cluster, but for coursegrained work that is enough. The main problem might be maintenance and installation: with a wireless

[Beowulf] Re: Disks fail at what acceleration?

2006-03-24 Thread David Mathog
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 Karen Shaeffer wrote: >I can say that really large earthquakes do create > a lot of very chaotic motion. During college I worked some summers at the HP optoelectronics division on Page Mill road in Palo Alto. One year(1979?) we had an earthquake that was around a 5. The groun

[Beowulf] Re: Wireless cluster

2006-03-24 Thread Jim Lux
At 06:35 AM 3/24/2006, Eugen Leitl wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded message from "John McKelvey jmmckel%x%attglobal.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "John McKelvey jmmckel%x%attglobal.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:28:57 -0500 To: "Leitl, Eugen -id#3h6-"

Re: [Beowulf] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: CCL: Wireless cluster]

2006-03-24 Thread Gerry Creager N5JXS
It might be interesting to use one of the accellerated 802.11G systems but it'd only give you UP TO 108 Mb/s half-duplex. There are other options: 802.16 has some non-standard implementations ranging up toward 80 Mb/s full-duplex and there are some gigabit half-duplex (but *why*?) wireless ser

Re: [Beowulf] Static Compilation versus Dynamic Compilation

2006-03-24 Thread Leif Nixon
"Andrew D. Fant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Hearns wrote: > >> Eh? Install the libraries in /usr/local/x on the head node. >> Export this as an NFS share. Mount on all nodes, and put it into your >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. >> IMHO, there is very little reason for installing APPLICATION level

[Beowulf] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: CCL: Wireless cluster]

2006-03-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded message from "John McKelvey jmmckel%x%attglobal.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "John McKelvey jmmckel%x%attglobal.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:28:57 -0500 To: "Leitl, Eugen -id#3h6-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: CCL: Wireless c

Re: [Beowulf] pci-e netwokr adapters

2006-03-24 Thread Mark Hahn
> Any one have success running gig-e through the pci-e bus? why would you expect it to be different? pci-e exists mainly to provide headroom (ie, 16x), as well as some improvements to configurability (vendors can balance lanes per slot). for low-latency NICs, pci-e shaves off some time, but that

Re: [Beowulf] Pah!

2006-03-24 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 3/23/2006 6:32:45 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Robert Brown said everything he says is False" > > Nothing like the hint of paradox in morning. > > -- > Doug Robert Brown me

Re: [Beowulf] Pah!

2006-03-24 Thread Leif Nixon
"Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do pigeons have Buddha nature? Coo. -- Leif Nixon -Systems expert National Supercomputer Centre- Linkoping University -