Re: [Beowulf] MPI list of free nodes

2006-09-20 Thread Toon Knapen
Dierks Michel wrote: Hello, I'm actually busy to develop an application to calculate the Mandelbrot fractals. I'm using a Beowulf cluster of three nodes and a master. I use MPICH as communication library. In my application, I send one line of the complex plan to one node. Before that I must kno

Re: [Beowulf] Has anyone actually seen/used a cell system?

2006-09-20 Thread Geoff Jacobs
Mark Hahn wrote: >> See the berkeley article, it's very thorough and discusses cycle time >> for most fp operations on a variety of CPUs. >> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~samw/projects/cell/EDGE06_abstract.pdf > > is the actual article there? the abstract is _not_ very thorough... > Sorry, wrong

Re: [Beowulf] Has anyone actually seen/used a cell system?

2006-09-20 Thread Geoff Jacobs
Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "Mark Hahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:51 PM > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Has anyone actually seen/used a cell system? > > >>> Can anyone point me to a url, or tell me wh

Re: [Beowulf] Has anyone actually seen/used a cell system?

2006-09-20 Thread Joe Landman
Craig Tierney wrote: see it in the near future. The key to winning the Roadrunner proposal was to get HPL to run at over 1 PF (science be damned). The Cell heh ... Maybe it is time to define a unit of measure. 1 HPL = 1 TF or something like that ... -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder a

Re: [Beowulf] Has anyone actually seen/used a cell system?

2006-09-20 Thread Craig Tierney
Mark Hahn wrote: Can anyone point me to a url, or tell me what their experience is with this technology? Is it as fast as it's purported to be? I haven't come anywhere near a Cell, but then again, I'm not sure I'd want to. 14.6 Gflops (64b, and assuming the full 8 SPE's) isn't bad, but then

Re: [Beowulf] Has anyone actually seen/used a cell system?

2006-09-20 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
- Original Message - From: "Mark Hahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Has anyone actually seen/used a cell system? Can anyone point me to a url, or tell me what their experience is with this technolo

Re: [Beowulf] Has anyone actually seen/used a cell system?

2006-09-20 Thread David Kewley
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 10:51, Mark Hahn wrote: > > Can anyone point me to a url, or tell me what their > > experience is with this technology? Is it as fast as > > it's purported to be? > > I haven't come anywhere near a Cell, but then again, I'm not sure > I'd want to. 14.6 Gflops (64b,

Re: [Beowulf] Has anyone actually seen/used a cell system?

2006-09-20 Thread Brian Dobbins
Hi Joe, I recently posted these links elsewhere, but maybe you (and others?) will find them interesting: A talk by Barry Bolding of IBM's Deep Computing group about Cell: http://www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP11/Presentations/IBM/bolding-cell.pdf A paper out of LBNL's Future Technologies Group on C

Re: [Beowulf] Has anyone actually seen/used a cell system?

2006-09-20 Thread Mark Hahn
Can anyone point me to a url, or tell me what their experience is with this technology? Is it as fast as it's purported to be? I haven't come anywhere near a Cell, but then again, I'm not sure I'd want to. 14.6 Gflops (64b, and assuming the full 8 SPE's) isn't bad, but then again, a 3 GHz Co

[Beowulf] Has anyone actually seen/used a cell system?

2006-09-20 Thread J . A . Delcorso
If this has already been discussed on the list, a pointer to the thread would be appreciated! Looking over the list I found a couple references to the IBM cell processors being used in PS3. Has anyone had a chance to actually use/test one of these systems yet? Considering that the PS3 is supp

[Beowulf] MPI list of free nodes

2006-09-20 Thread Dierks Michel
Hello, I'm actually busy to develop an application to calculate the Mandelbrot fractals. I'm using a Beowulf cluster of three nodes and a master. I use MPICH as communication library. In my application, I send one line of the complex plan to one node. Before that I must know which node are free

Re: NFS Performance (was Re: [Beowulf] GPFS on Linux (x86))

2006-09-20 Thread Krugger
Could it be that you are getting timeouts because you don't have enough nfsd daemons. This only might happen under heavy I/O load. And when there are thousands of operations floading the server sometimes it just has to drop some off the queue when the queue get full. __

Re: [Beowulf] cluster softwares supporting parallel CFD computing

2006-09-20 Thread Toon Knapen
Greg Lindahl wrote: Do you have some papers that describe in what way the overall performance of the application depends on differences in message rate etc? No, but I can show you a series of slides with performance compared to Mellanox, and a histogram of the actual message sizes and rates of