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

2006-11-08 Thread Chris Samuel
On Saturday 29 July 2006 13:06, Geoff Jacobs wrote: > Just brainstorming, what would the best method be? Poach some of the > globus stuff? A chroot scheme? Xen? The Globus folks have some work that I saw described at CCGrid in Singapore this year called Workspaces [1] which is basically deployin

Re: [Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-11-08 Thread Chris Samuel
On Thursday 09 February 2006 11:28, Bill Broadley wrote: > I'd vote for banning ALL posts with attachments, HTML, vcard, .exe. > > Has there ever been a useful attachment sent to the beowulf list? PGP signatures.. -- Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Deputy Systems Manager Victorian P

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

2006-11-08 Thread Chris Samuel
On Saturday 16 September 2006 00:32, Brent Franks wrote: > On 9/15/06, Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wild guess - NFS servers are running RHEL and using ext3 ? > > Exactly. If you are using RHEL4 and are not at Update 4 already then apparently there is a RH induced bug in the def

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

2006-11-08 Thread Chris Samuel
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 19:55, Krugger wrote: > 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 qu

Re: [Beowulf] Thought that this might be of interest

2006-11-08 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 06:32:00PM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote: > Understood, but the economics were sadly just not there for us in this case > as > we already had the Intel licenses for our other cluster and it was trivial to > point the Opteron cluster to the same server. Yep, it's hard to com

[Beowulf] OT: HPC technical position open

2006-11-08 Thread Joe Landman
Hi folks: Please forgive the OT post / spam. Short version: we have an on-site HPC position open. Email me offline or call if you want more info. If you will be at SC06, my cell is below, please call, and we can meet and talk. Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Info

Re: [Beowulf] LECCIBG Announcement (SC06)

2006-11-08 Thread Todd Patton
For that matter; should anyone need some information, help, or assistance while in Tampa. Please feel free to email me. Although I am unable to attend the conference, I live in Tampa.On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:27 -0500, Douglas Eadline wrote: > For those attending SC06 and who want to make there cl