Re: [Beowulf] SuperMicro and lm_sensors

2008-06-18 Thread Karen Shaeffer
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 06:14:20PM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 03:11:54PM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > > Speaking of lm_sensors, does anyone have configs for recent SuperMicro > > mobos? My SuperMicro support contact doesn't have ay idea, and running > > sensors-detect l

Re: [Beowulf] Re: "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
USA and allowing encryption beyond the cracking capabilities of a 1st year computer science student... ...hmmm I remember how i did do big efforts to get vista ultimate bitlocker to work. On paper it sounds ok. AES 256 bits CBC. The idea is : your usb stick has the encryption key and only t

Re: [Beowulf] SuperMicro and lm_sensors

2008-06-18 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 03:11:54PM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote: > Speaking of lm_sensors, does anyone have configs for recent SuperMicro > mobos? My SuperMicro support contact doesn't have ay idea, and running > sensors-detect leaves me with lots of readings which are > miscalibrated. Thanks to the

[Beowulf] Re: [OT: LTO Ultrium (3) throughput?

2008-06-18 Thread Joe Landman
David Mathog wrote: Joe Landman wrote: [...] Maybe it will mean more to you than it does to me... % lsscsi --long [8:0:0:0]tapeHP Ultrium 3-SCSI D21D /dev/st0 state=running queue_depth=32 scsi_level=4 type=1 device_blocked=0 timeout=900 Hmmm... queue_depth of 32? On a t

Re: [Beowulf] OT: LTO Ultrium (3) throughput?

2008-06-18 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
Hi Dave, Probably the i/o is your limiting factor. Using raid10 or something? Ignore that factor 2 compression by the way, that's just marketing paper. My LTO-2 gets about 28MB/s uncompressed streamspeed, for compressed files (7-zip is far superior to anything else currently under linux

[Beowulf] Re: [OT: LTO Ultrium (3) throughput?

2008-06-18 Thread David Mathog
Joe Landman wrote: > Have you adjusted the block size up? maybe try > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=8M count=1000 The tape has a 64Mb on board buffer and somewhere in the manual it said that it shouldn't matter. But no, I have not tried that yet and will do so tomorrow. > This said, have

Re: [Beowulf] OT: LTO Ultrium (3) throughput?

2008-06-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 at 8:24pm, Joe Landman wrote David Mathog wrote: If any of you have an LTO Ultrium-3 drive what kind of speeds are you observing? On one Linux system here (kernel 2.6.24-19) we have an HP Ultrium-3 attached to an Adaptec ASC-29320ALP U320 controller. ISTR hearing some rum

Re: [Beowulf] Re: "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In general, fundamental research is not subject to export controls, so > if you frame your problem in terms of abstract mathematical problems, > you're not going to be treading on any toes. However, start > distributing it as "Jim Lux's superduper encryptor/p

Re: [Beowulf] OT: LTO Ultrium (3) throughput?

2008-06-18 Thread Joe Landman
David Mathog wrote: If any of you have an LTO Ultrium-3 drive what kind of speeds are you observing? On one Linux system here (kernel 2.6.24-19) we have an HP Ultrium-3 attached to an Adaptec ASC-29320ALP U320 controller. There is nothing else on that SCSI bus, termination and cable seem good. G

Re: [Beowulf] Re: "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Joe Landman
Jim Lux wrote: So.. if your (foreign person) buddy is designing thermonuclear devices in their garage, and they complain about how slow it is to run the hydrocodes to simulate stuff, better not hand them that old copy of Sterling, et al., or even worse, give them rgb's website. (the latter wo

[Beowulf] OT: LTO Ultrium (3) throughput?

2008-06-18 Thread David Mathog
If any of you have an LTO Ultrium-3 drive what kind of speeds are you observing? On one Linux system here (kernel 2.6.24-19) we have an HP Ultrium-3 attached to an Adaptec ASC-29320ALP U320 controller. There is nothing else on that SCSI bus, termination and cable seem good. Getting into scsi-selec

[Beowulf] Re: "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Jim Lux
At 04:16 PM 6/18/2008, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: Jakob, Is it legal what your friend is doing for his hobby in his sparetime? Thanks, Vincent There are many things that one might do, perhaps with a cluster, that can get you into trouble with various treaties and agreements. For example, the

Re: [Beowulf] SuperMicro and lm_sensors

2008-06-18 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Greg: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Greg Lindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of lm_sensors, does anyone have configs for recent SuperMicro > mobos? My SuperMicro support contact doesn't have ay idea, and running > sensors-detect leaves me with lots of readings which are > miscalib

Re: [Beowulf] NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MD5, and "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Kilian CAVALOTTI
On Wednesday 18 June 2008 04:31:21 pm you wrote: > I'm glad you mentioned this. I've read through much of the > information on their web site and I still don't understand the usage > model for CUDA. By that I mean, on a desktop machine, are you > supposed to have 2 graphics cards, 1 for running CUD

Re: [Beowulf] NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MD5, and "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Not that this mailing list is an appropriate place to discuss this, but... Vincent Diepeveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Treaty, if i read it well, makes problems using public key above 512 > bits. > > So according to that treaty, if i read it correct, trying to do anything > with a SSH which u

Re: [Beowulf] NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MD5, and "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Bill Broadley
Greg Lindahl wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:51:04AM -0400, Prentice Bisbal wrote: Someone made the inaccurate statement that CUDA programming is difficult and time-consuming. One data point cannot prove that CUDA is easy. There are people out there claiming that FPGAs are easy to program,

Re: [Beowulf] NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MD5, and "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Jon Forrest
Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote: We've also encountered somme oddities, like CUDA code freezing a machine running X.org (and using the proprietary NVIDIA driver), I'm glad you mentioned this. I've read through much of the information on their web site and I still don't understand the usage model for CU

Re: [Beowulf] NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MD5, and "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
Jakob, You are speaking here of a hobby project of a system administrator to crack a few passwords in the slowest possible way? In general very stupid algorithms do not benefit much from caching things in RAM, let alone caches and are lightyears slower than what is possible. Game tree search

Re: [Beowulf] NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MD5, and "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:14:28PM +0200, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > Prentice, > > No one doubts your collegue. > Ok the following has nothing to do with any part of the discussion, but I just needed to get this out :) ... > So this experiment of your high esteemed collegue is an example of an

Re: [Beowulf] NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MD5, and "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Kilian CAVALOTTI
On Wednesday 18 June 2008 02:46:04 pm Greg Lindahl wrote: > One data point cannot prove that CUDA is easy. There are people out > there claiming that FPGAs are easy to program, because they're one of > the 7 people on the planet for whom programming an FPGA is easy. > > I've looked over CUDA and so

[Beowulf] SuperMicro and lm_sensors

2008-06-18 Thread Greg Lindahl
Speaking of lm_sensors, does anyone have configs for recent SuperMicro mobos? My SuperMicro support contact doesn't have ay idea, and running sensors-detect leaves me with lots of readings which are miscalibrated. -- greg ___ Beowulf mailing list, Be

Re: [Beowulf] Tyan S2932 and lm_sensors

2008-06-18 Thread Mikhail Kuzminsky
In message from "Seth Bardash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:32:17 -0600): ftp://ftp.tyan.com/softwave/lms/2932.sensors.conf Seth Bardash Thank you very much !! It's strange, but I didn't find this file on Tyan archive! Mikhail Integrated Solutions and Systems 1510 Old North G

Re: [Beowulf] NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MD5, and "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Joe Landman
Prentice Bisbal wrote: Vincent Diepeveen wrote: Running 128 parallel sessions of md5sum is not so interesting at all, we all believe this can be done fast. Vincent, That is the whole point of my original posting. The point was NEVER to demonstrate the use of GPUs for streaming MD5-encrypted

Re: [Beowulf] Tyan S2932 and lm_sensors

2008-06-18 Thread Mikhail Kuzminsky
In message from "Seth Bardash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:32:17 -0600): ftp://ftp.tyan.com/softwave/lms/2932.sensors.conf Seth Bardash Integrated Solutions and Systems 1510 Old North Gate Road Colorado Springs, CO 80921 719-495-5866 719-495-5870 Fax 719-337-4779 Cell http://ww

Re: [Beowulf] NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MD5, and "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:51:04AM -0400, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Someone made the inaccurate statement that CUDA programming is difficult > and time-consuming. One data point cannot prove that CUDA is easy. There are people out there claiming that FPGAs are easy to program, because they're one

Re: [Beowulf] NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MD5, and "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > > Running 128 parallel sessions of md5sum is not so interesting at all, we > all believe this can be done fast. > Vincent, That is the whole point of my original posting. The point was NEVER to demonstrate the use of GPUs for streaming MD5-encrypted data. This was the

Re: [Beowulf] NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MD5, and "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
Prentice, No one doubts your collegue. Taking a md5 is very fast on PC processors. The code is very simple. Just a few lines of code it is. At my raid10 array i take a lot of md5sums for big files (chess endgame table bases), the limiting factor is the i/o speed. I/O delivers oh in my ca

[Beowulf] Tyan S2932 and lm_sensors

2008-06-18 Thread Mikhail Kuzminsky
Sorry, do somebody have correct sensors.conf file for Tyan S2932 motherboard ? There is no lm_sensors configuration file for this mobos on Tyan site :-( Yours Mikhail Kuzminsky Computer Assistance to Chemical Research Center Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry Moscow __

[Beowulf] NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MD5, and "hobbyists"

2008-06-18 Thread Prentice Bisbal
I seem to have muddied the waters of the original NVIDIA/CUDA post. Someone made the inaccurate statement that CUDA programming is difficult and time-consuming. I cited the MD5-example of my colleague as an example of how easy it is to port the code, and how significant the performance improvements

[Beowulf] HPC Position available in Durham, NC

2008-06-18 Thread Sean Dilda
(I'm resending this as the first version had an html attachment that was too big for this list) If there are any experience HPC Sysadmins in the Raleigh-Durham area or looking to move to it, please take a look at this job posting. We're stepping up our HPC and Research Computing efforts and a