Re: [Beowulf] HDD reliability numbers

2006-10-18 Thread Jim Lux
At 07:51 PM 10/18/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all A month or so ago there was a fresh round of discussion on the relative merits of the different flavours of hard disk storge. As usual, we're all looking for some Real World (TM) numbers. I doubt this counts but I came across a prezo f

[Beowulf] HDD reliability numbers

2006-10-18 Thread steve_heaton
G'day all A month or so ago there was a fresh round of discussion on the relative merits of the different flavours of hard disk storge. As usual, we're all looking for some Real World (TM) numbers. I doubt this counts but I came across a prezo from Seagate and Microsoft (so it's obviously in Po

Re: [Beowulf] Question about root login(s)

2006-10-18 Thread Geoff Jacobs
Nelson Castillo wrote: > On 10/18/06, Geoff Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Tim Moore wrote: >> > Hello All - >> > >> > I just upgraded the OS on my cluster and to satisfy security, >> > implemented ssh. The old cluster used rsh and rlogin. I developed >> some > > Cool. > >> Replicate the

[Beowulf] blackbox on Mars?

2006-10-18 Thread Jim Lux
I was amused to see the scenario rendering of a Sun Blackbox on Mars. leaving aside the not inconsiderable hassle of getting many thousands of kilos to Mars and those pesky issues like radiation tolerance. It looks like they have 2 10x10 foot solar panels.. let's see.. that's about 20 square

Re: [Beowulf] re: Sun Project "blackbox"

2006-10-18 Thread Jim Lux
At 12:21 PM 10/18/2006, David Mathog wrote: I don't know about you folks, but 600A of 208V 3 phase combined with water cooling, a single exit door, and conducting surfaces everywhere sounds like it could be lethal, given 6 months of corrosion in the pipes or a faulty plumbing joint somewhere.

Re: [Beowulf] re: Sun Project "blackbox"

2006-10-18 Thread Jim Lux
At 12:21 PM 10/18/2006, David Mathog wrote: On further examination of the pictures it looks like at least some of the racks are mounted "sideways", to the conventional sense. I don't know about you folks, but 600A of 208V 3 phase combined with water cooling, a single exit door, and conducting s

RE: [Beowulf] re: Sun Project "blackbox"

2006-10-18 Thread Lombard, David N
From: David Mathog on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 12:22 PM [deletia] > Some of the concept photos are a scream. > > I especially like the one of two of these units, > marked with Red Cross symbols, sitting in > a dusty field in what appears to be a refugee camp while women > walk by with what appe

Re: [Beowulf] re: Sun Project "blackbox"

2006-10-18 Thread Brian Atkins
According to the ars-technica article today, these units are intended more as a drop-and-leave-until-dead type system. After you feel too many nodes have died you ship the whole thing off to be refurbished offline. -- Brian Atkins Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.sing

Re: [Beowulf] Question about root login(s)

2006-10-18 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 10/18/06, Geoff Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tim Moore wrote: > Hello All - > > I just upgraded the OS on my cluster and to satisfy security, > implemented ssh. The old cluster used rsh and rlogin. I developed some Cool. Replicate the .ssh directory from root on the login node to r

[Beowulf] HPCC MPIRandomAccess Error

2006-10-18 Thread James Evans
I am testing a cluster using HPLinpack - HPLinpack 1.0a -- High-Performance Linpack benchmark -- January 20, 2004 Written by A. Petitet and R. Clint Whaley, Innovative Computing Labs., UTK and every so often, the test will stop at MPIRandomAccess. Most recently, this has happened after 7

Re: [Beowulf] Question about root login(s)

2006-10-18 Thread Steffen Persvold
> You need to distribute the keys for root to /root/.ssh on all of the > nodes. Or... use /etc/ssh/shosts.equiv and host-based authentication (HostbasedAuthentication yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config). http://www.snailbook.com/faq/trusted-host-howto.auto.html Cheers, Steffen > > > > Mike Davis > > T

[Beowulf] Re: Sun Project "blackbox"

2006-10-18 Thread Chris Traylor
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 12:00 -0700, David Mathog wrote: I'm not sure the prototype configuration would even be legal in some locales, as there is only one door into it, at least it appears that way from the photos. Actually, from the second picture in their gallery, it looks like it has,

Re: [Beowulf] Question about root login(s)

2006-10-18 Thread Geoff Jacobs
Tim Moore wrote: > Hello All - > > I just upgraded the OS on my cluster and to satisfy security, > implemented ssh. The old cluster used rsh and rlogin. I developed some > nice scripts that allow me to do an emergency shutdown, reboot and other > misc node maintenance with the execution of one

Re: [Beowulf] Question about root login(s)

2006-10-18 Thread John Leidel
You can setup `passwordless` ssh access within your cluster... http://www.numbski.net/passwordless_ssh.html or check out google... once you get it setup, you can do something on the order of : `ssh remotehost shutdown -r now` On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:10 -0500, Tim Moore wrote: > Hello All -

Re: [Beowulf] Question about root login(s)

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Davis
You need to distribute the keys for root to /root/.ssh on all of the nodes. Mike Davis Tim Moore wrote: Hello All - I just upgraded the OS on my cluster and to satisfy security, implemented ssh. The old cluster used rsh and rlogin. I developed some nice scripts that allow me to do an em

[Beowulf] re: Sun Project "blackbox"

2006-10-18 Thread David Mathog
On further examination of the pictures it looks like at least some of the racks are mounted "sideways", to the conventional sense. In order to reach the front or back of the rack one must first slide a combination dolly/jack under the rack and crank the whole rack up before sliding it out: http

[Beowulf] Question about root login(s)

2006-10-18 Thread Tim Moore
Hello All - I just upgraded the OS on my cluster and to satisfy security, implemented ssh. The old cluster used rsh and rlogin. I developed some nice scripts that allow me to do an emergency shutdown, reboot and other misc node maintenance with the execution of one command. SSH configurat

Re: [Beowulf] Sun Project "blackbox"

2006-10-18 Thread John Leidel
I was actually hoping to get one dropped in my backyard. Just think of the positive return over the crabgrass! :-) On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 11:15 -0700, David Mathog wrote: > Sun's project "blackbox" is pretty interesting. Basically it's a > prepackaged cluster in a shipping container. Water cool

[Beowulf] Sun Project "blackbox"

2006-10-18 Thread David Mathog
Sun's project "blackbox" is pretty interesting. Basically it's a prepackaged cluster in a shipping container. Water cooled. There's currently a link to it from www.sun.com. Overall I like the concept - it could change data center design from constructing one off buildings to essentially settin