Re: [Beowulf] Problems with a JS21 - Ah, the networking...

2007-09-28 Thread Bruce Allen
The myrinet connection was working right, but sometimes a user program just got stuck - one of the processes was sleeping, and all others were running. Then, the program hangs. Any suggestions? I can provide any log necessary. Ivan, you probably already know this, but if not it can be very us

Re: [Beowulf] Changing BIOS settings on nodes

2007-09-28 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:34:42AM -0500, Geoff Jacobs wrote: > Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > >> This is where the Crash Cart comes into play. You know, the one with the > >> tools, crimper, maybe some spare fans, etc. Usually a monitor and > >> keyboard as well. > > > > If there's nothing to con

[Beowulf] [PCGRID08] CFP for Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems: submission site open!

2007-09-28 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 Submission deadline: October 15, 2007 Miami, Florida, U.S.A. web site: http://pcgrid.lri

Re: [Beowulf] Changing BIOS settings on nodes

2007-09-28 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:37:23PM -0500, Geoff Jacobs wrote: > Honest Guvnor wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > We would like to change the BIOS settings on our compute nodes to > > enable PXE booting which is disabled by default (AMIBIOS on Intel > > D875PBZ Pentium 4 motherboard). Reading and writin

[Beowulf] SBAC-PAD 2007: Extension of early registration deadline

2007-09-28 Thread Lucas Schnorr
# CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Early registration deadline Extension 19th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 200

Re: [Beowulf] Changing BIOS settings on nodes

2007-09-28 Thread Honest Guvnor
On 9/28/07, Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even a very simplistic VGA should be standard - how would you handle a > very early disk failure, or any other emergency of there's no way to > read out the status of the system that's not running the OS yet? We use a serial console to loo

[Beowulf] Problems with a JS21 - Ah, the networking...

2007-09-28 Thread Ivan Paganini
Hello everybody, I am beginning to take care of an IBM's JS21. The cluster consists of 112 nodes (8 bladecenters), plus 3 Power5 management nodes (1 headnode and 2 storage) and a DS4200 storage array. We are using now GPFS as the file system in the cluster in a gigabit dedicated service network (u

Re: [Beowulf] Changing BIOS settings on nodes

2007-09-28 Thread Geoff Jacobs
Steffen Grunewald wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:34:42AM -0500, Geoff Jacobs wrote: >> Steffen Grunewald wrote: >> This is where the Crash Cart comes into play. You know, the one with the tools, crimper, maybe some spare fans, etc. Usually a monitor and keyboard as well. >>> If

Re: [Beowulf] Changing BIOS settings on nodes

2007-09-28 Thread Geoff Jacobs
Steffen Grunewald wrote: >> This is where the Crash Cart comes into play. You know, the one with the >> tools, crimper, maybe some spare fans, etc. Usually a monitor and >> keyboard as well. > > If there's nothing to connect to you'd be lost with even that. You're right -- no onboard framebuffe