Re: [Beowulf] Core 2 Duo Bugs: Any importance in the beowulf field?

2006-11-13 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
good all mighty   "AI39. Cache Data Access Request from One Core Hitting a Modified Line inthe L1 Data Cache of the Other Core May Cause Unpredictable SystemBehaviorWhen request for data from Core 1 results in a L1 cache miss, the request isProblem:sent to the L2 cache. If this request hits

Re: [Beowulf] MPI synchronization problem

2006-11-13 Thread Michel Dierks
Geoff Jacobs wrote: Michel Dierks wrote: Geoff Jacobs wrote: Michel Dierks wrote: Hello, I'm developing an application to calculate the Mandelbrot fractal. Hmm... I never did this when I was learning the ropes. There is a pretty example included with the mpich

Re: [Beowulf] Core 2 Duo Bugs: Any importance in the beowulf field?

2006-11-13 Thread Jones de Andrade
Hi!Thanks a lot for the answer.Anyway, I would like to go a bit deeper on this subject. I know that there are this kind of problems in every processor. I know that the number 39 is the one of real concer. But we also know that still it seems to NOT have a fix, work around ou bios update for it. So

Re: [Beowulf] SC'06 Beowulf Bash ?

2006-11-13 Thread Gerald Davies
On 11/2/06, Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 02 November 2006 7:03 pm, Leif Nixon wrote: > > I had a real problem with that at CCGrid in Cardiff. How are > you supposed to order a pint of Brains with a straight face? it's not that popular on a night out in Cardiff - it's mo

Re: [Beowulf] Node Drop-Off

2006-11-13 Thread Gerald Davies
On 11/12/06, Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All - I have a compute node that has started dropping off. When I say drop off, I mean the node (while running a job) will lose all connectivity and the machine does not respond. I have viewed the logs and can find no reason for the node

Re: [Beowulf] SC'06 Beowulf Bash ?

2006-11-13 Thread Todd Patton
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Re: [Beowulf] Node Drop-Off

2006-11-13 Thread Chris Samuel
On Sunday 12 November 2006 16:13, Tim Moore wrote: > Has anyone ever seen such behavior? Others have mentioned about attaching consoles, etc, but it's also worth trawling through any logs in /var/log to see if anything is showing up there too. Check dmesg whilst the node is under load, if you'

Re: [Beowulf] Node Drop-Off

2006-11-13 Thread John Hearns
Mark Hahn wrote: we (and the vendor) regard this as grounds for repair (usually the power supply). I backup what Mark says. a) attach a console to the machine, either a serial line or a monitor/keyboard b) run memtest on it, followed by CPUburn or some other compute-intensive task for a da