RE: [Beowulf] NCSU and FORTRAN

2006-09-09 Thread Jim Lux
At 06:43 AM 9/8/2006, Mark Hahn wrote: I've had grad students and profs in the past get good results using Matlab, intel and the intel MKL. it's worth making explicit again: grad students and profs are not elegible for the "non-commercial" free Intel license. Again, what? The intel fortran fr

Re: [Beowulf] cluster softwares supporting parallel CFD computing

2006-09-09 Thread Keith D. Underwood
> It does apply, however, many parallel algorithms used today are > naturally blocking. Why? Well, complicating your algorithm to overlap > communication and computation rarely gives a benefit in practice. So > anyone who's tried has likely become discouraged, and most people > haven't even tried

RE: [Beowulf] NCSU and FORTRAN

2006-09-09 Thread Michael Will
Title: RE: [Beowulf] NCSU and FORTRAN Because you don't work for free - grad students generally have compensation and so do profs.  -Original Message- From:   Ivan Silvestre Paganini Marin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Fri Sep 08 12:04:34 2006 To: Mark Hahn Cc: beowulf@b

Re: [Beowulf] Gigabit PCI-E NIC

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Hahn
As these computers will already have Broadcom NIC, should the second NIC also be Broadcom? From a performance/stability point of view, does it you need to question your assumption that you need two nics. why do you think so? when will a node have concurrent heavy file and MPI traffic? its pos

Re: [Beowulf] cluster softwares supporting parallel CFD computing

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Hahn
overlapped. Alas, people use blocking calls in general because they are lazy (50%), they don't know (40%) or they don't care (10%). There is also the chicken and egg problem: nobody really tried to overlap, so MPI implementations didn't bother to support it, so you could not really overlap, so