[Beowulf] Re: Beowulf Digest, Vol 42, Issue ...

2007-08-16 Thread G.M.Sigut
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 14:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Beowulf digest..." ... and if you quote, pick only the relevant part. There are more frustrating things around, but having to scroll through

Re: [Beowulf] Open source prime number application

2007-08-16 Thread Peter St. John
actually I'm ambitious to build a small one myself, why I lurk here, but haven't committed to a specific plan yet. I really ought to get started with just a couple of heterogenous clunkers sitting around my place. Will be edifying. Peter On 8/16/07, Jack C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Haha ok,

Re: [Beowulf] Open source prime number application

2007-08-16 Thread Peter St. John
Ssssh. I'm trying to take over Tim's cluster. peter On 8/16/07, Jack C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peter, > > You can always install MPI on a single host to test your code, even if you > don't have a cluster. You can even run multple threads on that single host, > it just won;t have the speedu

Re: [Beowulf] Open source prime number application

2007-08-16 Thread Peter St. John
Tim, I thought about this some. I don't have a cluster, but I can program in C; you have a cluster, but don't want to program too much. It's possible we can help each other. A toy application I thought of is finding numbers that can written as a sum of two cubes in two different ways (there's a fa

Re: [Beowulf] Open source prime number application

2007-08-16 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Tim Simon wrote: I would like to know if there is any open source software that will run on a beowulf, which will do something like find prime numbers, or something simillar. I cant afford a commercial program. I am guessing that there is not "one size fits all" type thing

Re: [Beowulf] openmosix-kernel-2.6

2007-08-16 Thread Nicolas Vigier
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007, Chris Samuel wrote: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, A Lenzo wrote: > > > I am installing OpenMosix right now, and found that the kernel for > > 2.6 is in beta.  But this beta was released in late 2006 and I > > don't see anything newer.  > > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?foru

Re: [Beowulf] BIOS

2007-08-16 Thread Guy Coates
John Hearns wrote: > 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... >> > Having been involved in this exercise several times, ie. updating and > subequently resetting BIOS sett