Re: [Beowulf] Open source prime number application

2007-08-15 Thread Douglas Eadline
I think they found all the prime numbers already :))) To impress friends check out (parallel rendering): http://www.verrall.demon.co.uk/mpipov/ I believe [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] can use clusters (google for them) Then there is also parallel genetic algorithms. some coding need

Re: [Beowulf] Open source prime number application

2007-08-15 Thread John Hearns
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:23 +0930, Tim Simon wrote: > Hi > > > I recently built a small cluster/beowulf, out of old pentium II and > III's, installed MPI, and generally felt happy. However, I dont have > any applications to run on it. > > I have learnt some C++, but I dont really want to know ho

Re: [Beowulf] BIOS

2007-08-15 Thread Jeff Johnson
Bios updates on large clusters, wonderful way to spend a weekend... It is possible to use PXE to do bios updates and setting nvram. Success depends in part on your platform/motherboard manufacturer. Some of the manufacturers have a DOS utility that will dump the bios settings to a .bin file and th

[Beowulf] [PCGRID08] CFP for Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems

2007-08-15 Thread Derrick Kondo
CALL FOR PAPERS Second Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2008) held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) April 18, 2008 Miami, Florida, U.S.A. web site: http://pcgrid.lri.fr Desktop grids and volunteer compu

[Beowulf] Open source prime number application

2007-08-15 Thread Tim Simon
Hi I recently built a small cluster/beowulf, out of old pentium II and III's, installed MPI, and generally felt happy. However, I dont have any applications to run on it. I have learnt some C++, but I dont really want to know how to paralyze code yet - I am more interested in the admin/building

Re: [Beowulf] BIOS

2007-08-15 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Beat Rubischon wrote: > > It's probably the safest way to organize some students, give them a > keyboard, a monitor and a memoy stick containing the flash files... Might be true, but for 1000+ nodes, that's quite a thing to organize :) We will keep you posted, how we "solved" the problem. Than

Re: [Beowulf] BIOS

2007-08-15 Thread Carsten Aulbert
John Hearns wrote: > > I would advise the original poster to read up on /dev/nvram - capture > the /dev/nvram of a 'good' node in a file. Update a node via PXE, then > when it is rebooted into Linux use cat goodfile > /dev/nvram > A forlorn hope really. The trouble with this is simply, that some