Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-04-15 Thread Mike Davis
Joe is right about the stability factor. I have staff that try to ride the bleeding edge of FC on their desktops, and most of the time it works fine. But, for my clusters I want a stable and long term supportable OS. I can't afford an upgrade costing downtime or lack of availability. I also ca

Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-04-15 Thread Joe Landman
Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: Robert G. Brown wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John Hearns wrote: And re. the future version of Scientific Linux, there has been debate on the list re. co-operating with CENTos and essentially using CENTos as a base, and SL being an overlay of specific application and

Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-04-15 Thread Ed Hill
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 "Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not certain that I "like" the idea of fully integrating extras > into the main core, though. The problem with FC+extras+updates even > now is that 6500 packages is a bit difficult to get a human brain > around, especially when

Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-04-15 Thread Ed Hill
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 "Douglas Eadline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding is that FC7 will include distro building tools > for both custom rolls and live CD/DVD's. So I think > you will start to see a lot of customized FC rolls that > contain a subset of packages for a specific "domain".

Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-04-15 Thread Douglas Eadline
My understanding is that FC7 will include distro building tools for both custom rolls and live CD/DVD's. So I think you will start to see a lot of customized FC rolls that contain a subset of packages for a specific "domain". (I have been working on such integrated suite of RPMs for FC6) Of course

Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-04-15 Thread Jeffrey B. Layton
Robert G. Brown wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John Hearns wrote: And re. the future version of Scientific Linux, there has been debate on the list re. co-operating with CENTos and essentially using CENTos as a base, and SL being an overlay of specific application and library RPMs. Pros and con

Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-04-15 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Ed Hill wrote: Help [in the form of new packagers, new packages, package reviews, bug reports, etc...] is always welcome. Even as the list of Fedora packages grows it is still remarkably small compared to the universe of freely re-distributable (and thus eligible) software.

Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-04-15 Thread Ed Hill
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 "Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And re. the future version of Scientific Linux, there has been > > debate on the list re. co-operating with CENTos and essentially > > using CENTos as a base, and SL being an overlay of specific > > application and library RPMs

Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-04-15 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John Hearns wrote: And re. the future version of Scientific Linux, there has been debate on the list re. co-operating with CENTos and essentially using CENTos as a base, and SL being an overlay of specific application and library RPMs. Pros and cons either way there. The

Re: [Beowulf] Help with HPL Makefile

2007-04-15 Thread snj78
> Your Make.inc links are likely broken. It may happen if you tried to > compile with a wrong TOPdir or arch. Thanks to your help, the error has been resolved. I was creating a directory called /hpl and putting everything in there but didn't change the TOPdir parameter to match. I changed it

Re: Why is 64 bit faster. RE: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-04-15 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 01:55:21AM -0600, Andrew Shewmaker wrote: > People have mentioned the extra registers you get when going to > x86-64, but I don't > think anyone mentioned how that was related to the x87 unit. x86-64's ABI > forces people off of the x87 unit (mostly), and that's a good thi

Re: [Beowulf] Help with HPL Makefile

2007-04-15 Thread snj78
Well, still no luck. I have done several things but still get the exact same error. I changed the name of my makefile to Make.Linux_x86_64 to make the arch parameter but that didn't change anything, I am still getting the same error. I issued the command mpicc -showme and it tells me that I hav