[Beowulf] Re: "Code" vs. "Codes"

2008-04-02 Thread G.M.Sigut
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 07:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:23:18 + > From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... > Yes, but this is "code" as in "thing to keep other things secret" > > cryptography, cryptanalysis, "code breaking" > > "code" as in "I'm fin

Re: [Beowulf] FREEBSD CLUSTER

2008-04-02 Thread Peter St. John
Slashdot mentioned a cluster topology based on "perfect difference sets" used to build EKA, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EKA_%28supercomputer%29 but the wiki article doesn't mention it. The article http://punetech.com/building-eka-the-worlds-fastest-privately-funded-supercomputer/only mentions pape

Re: [Beowulf] Re: SMPs + One processor machines = Heterogeneous Cluster

2008-04-02 Thread Ellis Wilson
> need to be recompiled for a given node. If all of the nodes can use > one single compile of all of the codes needed, the cluster is not > heterogenous. I guess this would mean that running a 32-bit program > (I want karma for minding my usage of code vs. program here! :) ) on a > mixture of 32-

[Beowulf] Re: SMPs + One processor machines = Heterogeneous Cluster

2008-04-02 Thread Cally K
hi again I found this website from lam-mpi on heterogeneous cluster, and it kinda answers my question but just to be on the safe side, i would like to know the response from the mailing list users. http://www.lam-mpi.org/faq/category11.php3 On 4/3/08, Mark Kosmowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [Beowulf] How Can Microsoft's HPC Server Succeed?

2008-04-02 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Joe Landman wrote: Remember the size of our market is pretty small -- a few thousand installs would have a pretty significant impact in this space although within MS that may qualify as an embarrassing product failure. According to the latest reports from IDC and others,

Re: [Beowulf] How Can Microsoft's HPC Server Succeed?

2008-04-02 Thread Joe Landman
Gilad Shainer wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Dagdigian Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 4:40 PM To: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] How Can Microsoft's HPC Server Succeed? I still think MS HPC has a shot i

RE: [Beowulf] How Can Microsoft's HPC Server Succeed?

2008-04-02 Thread Gilad Shainer
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Dagdigian > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 4:40 PM > To: Beowulf Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] How Can Microsoft's HPC Server Succeed? > > > I still think MS HPC has a shot in this s

Re: [Beowulf] How Can Microsoft's HPC Server Succeed?

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Dagdigian
I still think MS HPC has a shot in this space. Remember the size of our market is pretty small -- a few thousand installs would have a pretty significant impact in this space although within MS that may qualify as an embarrassing product failure. To me the market for MS HPC products is wit

Re: [Beowulf] How Can Microsoft's HPC Server Succeed?

2008-04-02 Thread Jon Forrest
Joe Landman wrote: Hi Jon Jon Forrest wrote: First of all, I like Microsoft, and I voluntarily use Vista as my desktop of choice. I've built and run the Windows environments for the top CS and Civil Engineering departments in the US, and I was the first to port Postgres to Windows NT. Postgre

Re: [Beowulf] How Can Microsoft's HPC Server Succeed?

2008-04-02 Thread Joe Landman
Hi Jon Jon Forrest wrote: First of all, I like Microsoft, and I voluntarily use Vista as my desktop of choice. I've built and run the Windows environments for the top CS and Civil Engineering departments in the US, and I was the first to port Postgres to Windows NT. Postgres is nice. Did you

[Beowulf] How Can Microsoft's HPC Server Succeed?

2008-04-02 Thread Jon Forrest
First of all, I like Microsoft, and I voluntarily use Vista as my desktop of choice. I've built and run the Windows environments for the top CS and Civil Engineering departments in the US, and I was the first to port Postgres to Windows NT. That said, I just don't see how Microsoft's HPC server c

RE: [Beowulf] HPL Benchmarking and Optimization

2008-04-02 Thread Tom Elken
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ellis Wilson > > I'll likely try MKL soon for the Intel processors I'm > interested in. Good idea. You might also want to try "Goto BLAS" (Google that to find the free download site). It can be

Re: [Beowulf] HPL Benchmarking and Optimization

2008-04-02 Thread Ellis Wilson
Ellis Wilson wrote: > Currently I get these kind of numbers from tested > computers using the > same environment (gentoo, fortran in gcc, hpl, all > same compilation > options): > 1 x Core2Duo (2.1ghz/core, 2gigs ram) - 2.3Gflops > 1 x Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2ghz, 1gig ram) - 1.0Glops > 4 x Core2Duo

[Beowulf] Re: SMPs + One processor machines = Heterogeneous Cluster

2008-04-02 Thread Mark Kosmowski
> Message: 8 > Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:35:34 +0800 > From: "Cally K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Beowulf] SMPs + One processor machines = Heterogeneous >Cluster > To: beowulf@beowulf.org > Message-ID: ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi

Re: [Beowulf] "Code" vs. "Codes"

2008-04-02 Thread Rachelle Hinrichs
From: Greg Lindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> English has super-plurals: http://d.a.nicolas.free.fr/research/Linnebo-Nicolas-Superplurals.pdf rgb knows this, but he was pretending like he doesn't use "all-y'all" all the time... Anyway, the reason I suggested the OED is that they often have early usag

Re: [Beowulf] SMPs + One processor machines = Heterogeneous Cluster

2008-04-02 Thread richard . walsh
-- Original message -- From: "Cally K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am dealing with heterogeneous cluster in my research. I am a novice when it comes to networking, and have only been around with cluster for about a year. Anyway, from my previous question, and after doing som

[Beowulf] SMPs + One processor machines = Heterogeneous Cluster

2008-04-02 Thread Cally K
Hi guys, Thanks for the previous answers to my question, did not expect that kinda flow of information and it proved to be helpful in my research. I have a different question and I hope I can get some nice feedback. I am dealing with heterogeneous cluster in my research. I am a novice when it com

Re: [Beowulf] "Code" vs. "Codes"

2008-04-02 Thread Gerry Creager
Hardly sloppy use, 'code' as a reference to 'program' (n.) may be a very precise reference to how some people write programs. Some of the 'code' I see is, in fact, cryptic to the point of obfuscation. gerry Alan Louis Scheinine wrote: I can't stand it any longer, I've got to make my "contrib