Re: [Beowulf] quick and dirty cluster demo

2006-06-22 Thread Geoff Jacobs
Jim Lux wrote: > I was recently asked about how one would go about doing a quick cluster > demo with the following configuration: > > a laptop running a TBD version of Linux > a bunch (4-16) of diskless nodes (implying that they need to netboot > with PXE, etc.) > all connected with ethernet.. >

[Beowulf] quick and dirty cluster demo

2006-06-22 Thread Jim Lux
I was recently asked about how one would go about doing a quick cluster demo with the following configuration: a laptop running a TBD version of Linux a bunch (4-16) of diskless nodes (implying that they need to netboot with PXE, etc.) all connected with ethernet.. Seems like something like

Re: [Beowulf] Linux clustering forum?

2006-06-22 Thread Joe Landman
There are a few cluster specific sites/blogs. Cluster Monkey (www.clustermonkey.net), Scalability.org (www.scalability.org), and probably a few others. Robert Fogt wrote: > Hello beowulf, > > Does anyone know of a website on clustering that has a message forum? > > I feel more at home in a mess

RE: [Beowulf] MPI mysql

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Will
Title: RE: [Beowulf] MPI mysql It's not going to be as easy as that. You have to use whatever mechanisms for scaling are available within mysql, i.e. Master/slave replication or the more advanced ndb stuff. In either case you probably will need to find somebody experienced to assist you.  --

Re: [Beowulf] Tyan's Beowulf in a box

2006-06-22 Thread Frank Gruellich
Hi, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > (Oh, I see the S2891 does have one PCI-Express slot, but the S2881 > does not.) That doesn't matter very much, because the harddisk of each Typhoon node is mounted at a place blocking all PCI-whatever slots. Even, if you remove the HDD frame and place disks somewher

[Beowulf] MPI mysql

2006-06-22 Thread Felipe Duran
Hello All. Could some make mysql run over mpich on a Beowulf cluster? I have a monitoring toll that uses mysql to store host status, but have more than 2000 devices to monitor and the DB burn CPU and Memory. To take a notion of the problem, I have a dual Xeon 3.2 with 4GB of memor

[Beowulf] Linux clustering forum?

2006-06-22 Thread Robert Fogt
Hello beowulf, Does anyone know of a website on clustering that has a message forum? I feel more at home in a message forum than in a mailing list. ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) vi

Re: [Beowulf] IB troubles - mca_mpool_openib_register

2006-06-22 Thread Bill Wichser
You nailed it Greg. Thanks! Greg Lindahl wrote: The problem is that when I run with nodes=64:ppn=2 and only use -np 64 with my openmpi (v 1.0.2 gcc compiled), it still runs fine, but when I run with -np 65 I get megabytes of error messages and the job never completes. The errors all look lik

Re: [Beowulf] IB troubles - mca_mpool_openib_register

2006-06-22 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:08:19AM -0700, Michael Huntingdon wrote: > If you are going to look into a different MPI implementation, > consider HP-MPI. The choice of interconnect (GigE, Myrinet, IB, and > Quadrics) are all written into it, so you can create a single > (common) operating environm

Re: [Beowulf] IB troubles - mca_mpool_openib_register

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Huntingdon
Bill If you are going to look into a different MPI implementation, consider HP-MPI. The choice of interconnect (GigE, Myrinet, IB, and Quadrics) are all written into it, so you can create a single (common) operating environment for your programmers. I had a look at the benchmarks a few months

Re: [Beowulf] IB troubles - mca_mpool_openib_register

2006-06-22 Thread Greg Lindahl
> The problem is that when I run with nodes=64:ppn=2 and only use -np 64 > with my openmpi (v 1.0.2 gcc compiled), it still runs fine, but when I > run with -np 65 I get megabytes of error messages and the job never > completes. The errors all look like this: > > mca_mpool_openib_register: ibv

Re: [Beowulf] IB troubles - mca_mpool_openib_register

2006-06-22 Thread Bill Wichser
Thanks. No I have not tried a different version of MPI to test but will do so. As for a later version of OpenIB, there is incentive to do so but I don't know how quickly that can be accomplished. Bill Lombard, David N wrote: More memory in your nodes? Not sure what size of queues and such

RE: [Beowulf] IB troubles - mca_mpool_openib_register

2006-06-22 Thread Lombard, David N
More memory in your nodes? Not sure what size of queues and such openmpi allocates, but you could simply be running out of memory if openmpi allocates large queue depths. Have you tried an alternate MPI to see if you have the same problem? Intel MPI, MVAPICH, MVAPICH2, as well as others support O

[Beowulf] IB troubles - mca_mpool_openib_register

2006-06-22 Thread Bill Wichser
Cluster with dual Xeons and Topsping IB adapters running a RH 2.6.9-34.ELsmp kernel (x86_64) with the RH IB stack installed, each node w/8G of memory. Updated firmware as per Mellanox in the IB cards. Updates /etc/security/limits.conf to have memlock be 8192, both soft and hard limits to ov