[Beowulf] Re:hardware question: building a cluster node/ student

2007-07-26 Thread David Mathog
"Nathan Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Earlier this summer, the case fan on one of the machines failed, and the > result seems like a cooked motherboard (erratic errors with the integrated > NIC). There should be an automatic shutdown script running to detect temperature events and shut down

[Beowulf] dynamic repackaging of messages

2007-07-26 Thread Peter St. John
I was just reading Jeff Layton's networking-for-HPC article in Linux Mag http://www.linux-mag.com/launchpad/business-class-hpc/build/3507 and it got me thinking if it would be feasible for a parallel application to distinguish two sorts of messages: urgent (e.g. computing the gravitational effect

Re: [Beowulf] Virtualization

2007-07-26 Thread andrew holway
I was thinking of something more dynamic. Consider three large websites running in separate VM's (or perhaps more likely VPS's) on a cluster. At any one time the cluster is running at an average of 70% capacity. One website is European, one is American and one is Indian. They all have differing pe

Re: [Beowulf] Virtualization

2007-07-26 Thread andrew holway
Would this mean that a users environment could never exceed the resources of a single node? Andy On 26/07/07, Julien Leduc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm interested in utilising the hardware to create something akin to >> the sun grid or the amazon elastic computing cloud whereby the >> reso

[Beowulf] threading building blocks

2007-07-26 Thread Bill Broadley
I saw a bunch of press on intel's new Threading Building Blocks 2.0. Seems similar to a couple other products promising easier parallelism, even down to a contest for the best use. Except: * GPL v2 - an actual open license, not a fake open license. * Not OS specific: Windows, mac, and linux (I e