[Beowulf] BWBUG: Meeting Aug 8 2006 on 'Scali Cluster Management' at the iLab

2006-08-07 Thread Donald Becker
From: Michael Fitzmaurice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: August 8, 2006 Time: 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM Location: iLab 460 Springpark Place Suite 900 Herndon, Virginia 20170 Speakers: Ragnar Kjorstad, Lead Engineer from Scali Abstract: Scali will be presenting a technical session on

Re: [Beowulf] cluster flexibility vs. design specificity, cluster vs. supercomputing

2006-08-07 Thread Mark Hahn
Myself, prefer every cluster is specifically designed with "rooted" firmware and even hardware design, and benchmarked with specific application. That is my understanding of the cluster for supercomputing in scientific community. there are communities like that, generally characterized by sing

[Beowulf] cluster flexibility vs. design specificity, cluster vs. supercomputing

2006-08-07 Thread Xu, Jerry
Hi, All: I know lots experts here in this forum...so I am just keep posting and hope somebody can give a response :-) Here is a non-technical question but question regarding a strategy to manage growing cluster(s), it is about cluster flexibility vs. design specificity. Myself, p