[Beowulf] MDGrape-3 does 1 Petaflop/s

2006-07-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Japan-Bests-IBM-in-Supercomputer-Stakes/story.xhtml?story_id=1220059R0ADY Japan Bests IBM in Supercomputer Stakes Japan Bests IBM in Supercomputer Stakes July 26, 2006 8:27AM One future hurdle is the silicon chip that is the brain of these machines. Already engin

Re: [Beowulf] MPICH config: DCHP addresses and /etc/hosts?

2006-07-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 at 6:02pm, Nathan Moore wrote Is there a workaround in /etc/hosts that allows only hostnames to be specified? What is the proper format for /etc/hosts? Alternatively, how should MPICH be configured for DHCP (rather than static IP)? The first thing I'd try would be to ask

Re: [Beowulf] Blue-sky cluster security [was CLuster - Mpich - tstmachines - Heeelp !!!!!!!!]

2006-07-30 Thread Gerald Davies
On 7/30/06, Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but if you don't use the sort of trust-delegation stuff, what's the point? I'm pretty happy with ssh, which is secure, and requires no configuration. To get a certificate I have to give a passport and other details. If anything happens they no

[Beowulf] MPICH config: DCHP addresses and /etc/hosts?

2006-07-30 Thread Nathan Moore
Hello, I've downloaded and compiled MPICH2 on a small cluster of PowerPC's running linux (YDL 4.1). The cluster has home directories served through NFS and common login accounts via NIS, with one of the cluster nodes acting as the NFS/NIS server. The machines reside on a campus network w