Re: [Beowulf] IMPI network monitoring

2007-06-27 Thread Mark Hahn
capabilities. I cannot seem to find a way to interrogate these systems and get the status of the network interfaces. In particular I want to see if there are dropped packets, bad frames, collisions... That kind of thing. I wouldn't expect to be able to do that. things like dropped packets ar

Re: [Beowulf] Re: question for licensed software users

2007-06-27 Thread Mark Hahn
possible solution. It has to be done at every reboot, but that is easily accomplished by creating a startup script (or using rc.local). man ifconfig. everything he said was right, though I'd recommend using the /sbin/ip tool instead of ifconfig. both will work, but 'ip' is a very nice, moderniz

Re: [Beowulf] Are You Ready for "Intel Cluster Ready"

2007-06-27 Thread Lombard, David N
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 02:50:43PM -0400, Brian Dobbins wrote: > Hi Doug and everyone else, > >... > > The point is, memory and disk are cheap, and even with a ramdisk, > an extra 1MB (for Tcl) is hardly anything to sweat in most cases. > Python? Besides MPICH and its derivatives, some OS u

Re: [Beowulf] Are You Ready for "Intel Cluster Ready"

2007-06-27 Thread Lombard, David N
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:30:22AM -0400, Douglas Eadline wrote: > > Intel has announced their new "Cluster Ready" > program. I have a short write-up with links on > Cluster Monkey. > > http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/204/1/ > > It is an Intel centric spec for clusters. A "good thing"

Re: [Beowulf] Are You Ready for "Intel Cluster Ready"

2007-06-27 Thread Brian Dobbins
Hi Doug and everyone else, I remember some of our initial clusters running with really tiny ramdisks, and the idea of putting anything non-essential on the nodes seemed like blasphemy, but as a quick counterpoint, I just installed some nodes and included Tcl as required by the (environment) M

RE: [Beowulf] Are You Ready for "Intel Cluster Ready"

2007-06-27 Thread Kozin, I \(Igor\)
I've heard about it but was expecting it to be like a hardware spec (a la PC spec). Rather surprising to see so many software requirements. It's sort of understandable why Perl or Python (MPICH2/IntelMPI) are required. But Java, Tcl and even Python should be optional. The funny thing is we have

Re: [Beowulf] Are You Ready for "Intel Cluster Ready"

2007-06-27 Thread Kevin Ball
Wow... they require, on every node: Java Runtime Environment Perl Python Tcl Kitchen Sink* *(Okay, only figuratively) But I guess we already knew 'lean and mean' is not something Intel thinks about very often. -Kevin On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 06:30, Douglas Eadline wrote: > Intel has announced th

Re: [Beowulf] Are You Ready for "Intel Cluster Ready"

2007-06-27 Thread Buccaneer for Hire.
--- Douglas Eadline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Intel has announced their new "Cluster Ready" > program. I have a short write-up with links on > Cluster Monkey. > > http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/204/1/ > > It is an Intel centric spec for clusters. A "good > thing" > in general

Re: [Beowulf] Are You Ready for "Intel Cluster Ready"

2007-06-27 Thread Peter St. John
Doug, I just want to note: "...[Intel's standard] adds a requirement on the message layer implementation that differences in the device-level API be hidden from the application code. *An example* [emphasis mine] of an implementation of a message layer that meets this requirement is the Intel (tm)

Re: [Beowulf] Re: question for licensed software users

2007-06-27 Thread Peter St. John
Can you use a competititor of Flexlm, such as IBM's LUM, or is Flexlm required by Maple? If the later, I'd complain to Maple. It's sad to me that there are folks who need proprietary UIs to do science, while there are businesses paying C programmers to bucket-brigade cruft that should be handled b

[Beowulf] Are You Ready for "Intel Cluster Ready"

2007-06-27 Thread Douglas Eadline
Intel has announced their new "Cluster Ready" program. I have a short write-up with links on Cluster Monkey. http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/204/1/ It is an Intel centric spec for clusters. A "good thing" in general I think, though I have concerns. (read the post) Opinions ? (yes a d

Re: [Beowulf] any gp-gpu clusters?

2007-06-27 Thread Jeffrey B. Layton
Ganesh Shetty wrote: I did ( or at least attempted to ) to someting similar with the ATI stream processor card(s) using the Peakstream VM. We evaluated Cuda - do not want to get into that here. But now that GOOG has acquired Peakstream, we might have to take a second look at CUDA. -Ganesh