On Friday 29 December 2006 11:57, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Pick a distribution that you know that provides the maximum ease of
> maintenance with the maximum number of useful applications already
> packaged / readily available / easily ported. This will depend on your
> problem set: simulating n
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:39:59AM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Friday 29 December 2006 04:24, Robert G. Brown wrote:
>
> > I'd be interested in comments to the contrary, but I suspect that Gentoo
> > is pretty close to the worst possible choice for a cluster base. Maybe
> > slackware is worse,
> LWN is freely available to Debian developers because some kind
> commercial company bought a group subscription for us :)
Good to know ;-) I am a fresh DD although has been maintaining packages
for a while. ok - I am following http://lwn.net/Articles/13797/
Hopefully the deal is still valid an
On Friday 29 December 2006 04:24, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> I'd be interested in comments to the contrary, but I suspect that Gentoo
> is pretty close to the worst possible choice for a cluster base. Maybe
> slackware is worse, I don't know.
But think of the speed you could emerge applications wit
On Thursday 28 December 2006 18:22, Ruhollah Moussavi Baygi wrote:
> Please let me know your idea about SW level1 (Giga). Is it a proper choice
> for a small Beowulf cluster?
Never heard of it. Care to enlighten us ?
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On Thursday 28 December 2006 07:36, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> It is a reasonable assumption that Sun did their homework. I wonder who
> they are targeting.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/10/25/sun_grid_slip/
Sun's grid: lights on, no customers (October 2005)
14 months of utility computing
Robert G. Brown wrote:
The other is numerical HPC applications. Here the marketplace is one
where it is difficult to achieve a win. First of all, most people who
are doing HPC have very specific, very diverse, applications and often
these applications run on clusters that are at least to some
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Chetoo Valux wrote:
Dear all,
As a Linux user I've worked with several distros as RedHat, SuSE, Debian and
derivatives, and recently Gentoo.
Now I face the challenge of building a HPC for scientific calculations, and
I wonder which distro would suit me best. As a Gentoo us
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Chetoo Valux wrote:
I wonder then if there would be potential buyers for cluster time. I've been
browsing, not too deep, the net, and I've not found (yet) any information
of someone selling cluster time.
This is a perrenial topic of discussion on the list, and the general
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 06:46:25PM +0100, Chetoo Valux wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> As a Linux user I've worked with several distros as RedHat, SuSE, Debian and
> derivatives, and recently Gentoo.
>
> Now I face the challenge of building a HPC for scientific calculations, and
> I wonder which distro wo
Dear all,
As a Linux user I've worked with several distros as RedHat, SuSE, Debian and
derivatives, and recently Gentoo.
Now I face the challenge of building a HPC for scientific calculations, and
I wonder which distro would suit me best. As a Gentoo user, I've recognised
the power of customisat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear all,
> ..snip..
> > I wonder then if there would be potential buyers for cluster time.
> > I've been browsing, not too deep, the net, and I've not found
> > (yet) any information of someone selling cluster time.
> >
> I know about SUN selling it:
>
Interestin
Hi everybody,
Please let me know your idea about SW level1 (Giga). Is it a proper choice
for a small Beowulf cluster?
Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
--
Best,
Ruhollah Moussavi Baygi
Computational Physical Sciences Research Laboratory, Department of
NanoScience, IPM
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Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
resource is great indeed. forcing them me to pay money for the
subscription is not good IMHO... I prefer to donate my spare time and
participate in FOSS projects (I am a GNU/Debian DD).
LWN provides free subscriptions for Debian developers. (I think, but I'm
not sure
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:10:15PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
>
> > If you are a Linux Weekly News subscriber (and if you're not you
> > probably should be, it's a great news resource) you can read about it
> > here (should be
> resource is great indeed. forcing them me to pay money for the
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