On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 15:48 -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> I expected the latter, actually. Scyld may be a similar sort of model
> as well. I was more curious about how many people on list are running
> clusters that are currently configured to run nodes set up for a minimal
> kernel or special
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:59:41PM +0200, Jon Tegner wrote:
> Robert G. Brown wrote:
>> Fedora installs in the future will be done by yum. Yum enables
>> something that is truly marvelous for people who have to install through
>> thin pipes (e.g.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, James Cownie wrote:
I'm just curious. Who runs their cluster nodes at level 1 or 2 (plus
networking as needed)? Anybody? Show of hands?
Seems to me that your "DOS" could equally be a description of SUNMOS
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUNMOS) and its descendants, which
On 22 Oct 2007, at 19:37, Robert G. Brown wrote:
...
If we wanted to make a small compromise and perhaps manage a very few,
very standard peripheral devices and maybe make it easier to run
different programs, we might right the smallest possible operating
system -- something capable of taking
Chris,
I'm using the SIMSO version of the IPMI cards on my machines. No
problems using them for what I wanted them for. Remote power, remote
sensor monitoring and controlling both the BIOS and boot (via Grub) for
Linux. I have also been able to boot Linux, monitor the boot process
over the s
For those who live the New York City Area, I am forming an
HPC users group. The first meeting is on Thursday November 1.
I expect the meeting to focus on organization and how
we want to structure the meetings (speakers, topics, tutorials etc)
We will also have some discussion on the future trends
Chris Dagdigian wrote:
Does anyone have any experience/impressions of the "Supermicro
Intelligent Management" stuff?
I'm using them on a 128 nodes cluster. The impression is quite good, I
generally need poweron/reset commands, bios access, console access. They
do what they are built for. I
