On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:14:06PM -0500, Peter St. John wrote:
> I'd be optimistic for the process of translating F to C, followed by
> compiling the C, to be as effecient as the process of compiling C into
> assembler, followed by assmbling into executable.
I'm not optimistic. The process destr
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Don R. Baker wrote:
I apologize for flooding the list by a gross error must be noted:
Part of Canada is SOUTH of Detroit.
Mental dyslexia. That is what I actually meant to say. a) A trivial
pursuit question; b) my wife is from detroit.
Brain fart.
rgb
Thanks fo
At 11:38 AM 3/15/2007, Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Leif Nixon wrote:
"Peter St. John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I had thought that after some point (say, f77) the practical thing was to
translate fortran to C and use the C compiler, just because compiler writers
love C, adop
Robert G. Brown wrote:
[...]
Or be human-readable. f2c code was just about as evil as any zomby
woof or eskimo boy could be. I used to try to use it to START porting
fortran sources to C, but rapidly concluded that it was actually easier
and saner to just rewrite the algorithms in native C by h
Oh yeah, automatic translation of FORTRAN to C is not human maintainable.
When WorldCom did that (with consultants) I pointed out that the generated C
was really FORTRAN and would be easier to maintain with FORTRAN programmers,
for example:
550 WRITE(6, 555, X)
555 FORMAT(...)
Became
not_printf(f
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Leif Nixon wrote:
"Peter St. John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I had thought that after some point (say, f77) the practical thing was to
translate fortran to C and use the C compiler, just because compiler writers
love C, adopted it hugely, and write great compilers. Appar
Robert G. Brown wrote:
So what would be the appropriate forms for addressing a large group in
CA? My knowledge of canadenglish is limited to experiences in the
immediate Detroit area (due south of Canada, as it were) and the movie
Strange Brew, eh, beauty?
Due south?
Detroit is one of the on
So what would be the appropriate forms for addressing a large group in
CA? My knowledge of canadenglish is limited to experiences in the
immediate Detroit area (due south of Canada, as it were) and the movie
Strange Brew, eh, beauty?
"my dear and respected colleagues" would work ;)
I could easi
Now comes the pitch. The "sweet spot" in cluster nodes at the moment seems
to be a dual socket, dual core Opteron or Intel machine with 2 gigs of RAM
per core, so each box is a 4-way SMP
(I will be flayed alive by the list for such cavalier numbers).
merely scourged ;)
I agree with the confi
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Greg Lindahl wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:39:03PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote:
When curmudgeonly addressing everyone, you want the super-plural,
"all y'all".
I thought it was "all yunz" - curmudgeons don't alliterate ;)
Robert is in the South, "all youse guys" is a Nor
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 11:16 -0700, Mathew Shember wrote:
> I am just wondering what is a reasonable amount of computers to allocate
> for playing around.
For most things I find a four node/dual cpu system to be adequate, at
least initially. Inter/inter node comms will naturally happen at
differe
Interesting question. The following is my opinion and may not
be shared by everyone. I think the best working definition was
given in the original book "How to Build a Beowulf" by Sterling,
Becker et al: (brackets are my additions)
".. a collection of personal computers [or servers] interconnect
"Peter St. John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I had thought that after some point (say, f77) the practical thing was to
> translate fortran to C and use the C compiler, just because compiler writers
> love C, adopted it hugely, and write great compilers. Apparently I was
> mistaken.
Compilers ar
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Mathew Shember wrote:
Hello all,
A brand new noob entering this realm.
I want to initiate a project involving a beowulf cluster. I have two
engineers who are VERY interested.
Anyway. I was wondering what would be a "decent" amount of equipment to
start off and the
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Alice Poma wrote:
Hi there,
As as a newbie I have a question, "Is Beowulf a clustering standard?" if yes
"What makes Beowulf a standard"
As I read about Beowulf, it appeared to me as a method for starting Linux
clustering, but some people call it a standard, I couldn't under
Mathew Shember wrote:
Hello all,
I am just wondering what is a reasonable amount of computers to allocate
for playing around.
I was thinking 4 pentiums with dual gig processors. Ram would be a gig
or more.
Matthew, if I may put some words in your mouth what I THINK you are
saying is tha
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