Re: [Beowulf] Re: multiport RS232 to ethernet (or USB)

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Lux
At 06:26 PM 4/10/2006, Warren Turkal wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 00:05, Chris wrote: > As a student hiding in the corners and under the stairs on this list i was > wondering why you guys would want to be connecting things to your marvelous > clusters with RS-232 type ports. i mean there's many

Re: [Beowulf] Re: multiport RS232 to ethernet (or USB)

2006-04-10 Thread Warren Turkal
On Friday 07 April 2006 00:05, Chris wrote: > As a student hiding in the corners and under the stairs on this list i was > wondering why you guys would want to be connecting things to your marvelous > clusters with RS-232 type ports. i mean there's many other ways to > interface right? So what'cha

Re: [Beowulf] Re: multiport RS232 to ethernet (or USB)

2006-04-10 Thread Julien . Leduc
> However, I did just try it with a cheap USB/RS232 adapter, and I can > toggle > RTS just fine from a program talking to a Windows COM port. And, they > "claim" that they have a Linux driver when I get to that step. I'm sure > it's the same FTDI USB/Serial chip that everyone uses. I played wit

Re: [Beowulf] multiport RS232 to ethernet (or USB)

2006-04-10 Thread Shahriar Sharghi
You may want to try a portmaster 2e. You probably can get a cheap one in ebay or get one from www.portmasters.com. I am not endorsing them either. Shahriar Sharghi President www.gocluster.com 1-646-709-2713 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4/6/06, Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking for cheap de

[Beowulf] A question on PBS

2006-04-10 Thread Shahriar Sharghi
Hi everyone, Anyone can help with the following; How can a PBS script be written that utalize different number CPUs in different nodes. The goal of it is to make a head node as part of computational node for one of the small cluster I am dealing with. That would be 4 dual-core-dual-processor-node

[Beowulf] xCAT 1.2.0 finally released

2006-04-10 Thread Benone Marcos
From xCAT dev team: xCAT 1.2.0 (after 3+ years of development, and 2+ years late) has released. FYI, 1.2.0 development started January 2003 and xCAT development started October 1999. Changes since 1.1.x: 1. Too many to list. Read the change log. Changes since 1.2.0-RC3: 1. RH4U3 support.

Re: [Beowulf] Re: multiport RS232 to ethernet (or USB)

2006-04-10 Thread Chris
As a student hiding in the corners and under the stairs on this list i was wondering why you guys would want to be connecting things to your marvelous clusters with RS-232 type ports. i mean there's many other ways to interface right? So what'cha plugging into these contraptions? On 4/6/06, Ed Ka

[Beowulf] Re: BWBUG live stream today

2006-04-10 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:56:04PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > Appologies for the short notice, but I just managed to get every thing > in order just in time to stream today's BWBUG meeting: > http://www.bwbug.org/ > > The URL for the live video stream is: > http://streamer2.rfa.org:8000

[Beowulf] XGrid on old macs

2006-04-10 Thread Nathan Moore
At our university we've got 5-10 old (g4) powermacs floating around the department that were talking about organizing as a cluster for pedagogical work in computational physics. Apple's Xgrid utility seems like and interesting utility to use for the job - I'm curious if anyone on the list