Re: [Beowulf] 32 bit or 64bit pkgs re /usr/local over NFS is okay, Joe

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Aquilina
in regards to flash i dont have any issues with it. On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - "Jon Aquilina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > do u happen to have gtalk by any chance. i downloaded the 64bit > > version of kubuntu. i think the kernel is a 64b

Re: [Beowulf] open mosix alternative

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Aquilina
cant that be used in conjunction wiht other packages taht will power down a node which fails? On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Kenneth Duncan Strouts < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jon, > > > Quoting Tony Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Although Kerrighed looks very promising, it is also quite f

Re: [Beowulf] which version of the gpl

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Samuel
- "Jon Aquilina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is the difference between version 2 and 3? GPLv3 is longer ? :-) There is an excellent side by side comparison of the two licenses at Groklaw here: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20060118155841115 #include IANAL, YMMV, co

Re: [Beowulf] 32 bit or 64bit pkgs re /usr/local over NFS is okay, Joe

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Samuel
- "Carsten Aulbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well other possiblities are: > > look at the output of uname -a > > if you get i686 you are running a 32bit kernel if the output contains > x64_64 you are running a 64 bit kernel (sometimes uname -m tells you > the same). Not universal, for

Re: [Beowulf] 32 bit or 64bit pkgs re /usr/local over NFS is okay, Joe

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Samuel
- "Jon Aquilina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > do u happen to have gtalk by any chance. i downloaded the 64bit > version of kubuntu. i think the kernel is a 64bit kernel but i > suspect that the pre pkged debians arent or might not be? The Debian/Ubuntu way is to be a proper 64-bit distro on

[Beowulf] A press release

2008-07-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Tim Cutts wrote: If upgrading packages wrecks the system, then the package installation scripts are broken. They should spot the upgrade in progress and take appropriate action, depending on the previously installed version. This can be quite a detailed process for Debian

Re: [Beowulf] which version of the gpl

2008-07-07 Thread Kyle Spaans
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 03:04:53PM +0200, Jon Aquilina wrote: > what is the difference between version 2 and 3? IIRC, the GPLv3 contains a bunch of modernization "upgrades" over the GPLv2. The only one I can think of off of the top of my head is the "Tivoisation" provision, meaning that hardware

Re: [Beowulf] zfs tuning for HJPC/cluster workloads?

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Brown
Joe Landman wrote: Hi folks: Investigating zfs on a Solaris 10 5/08 loaded JackRabbit for a customer. zfs performance isn't that good relative to Linux on this same hardware (literally a reboot between the two environments) [...] This is for an IO intensive application with multiple threa

Re: [Beowulf] open mosix alternative

2008-07-07 Thread Kenneth Duncan Strouts
Hi Jon, Quoting Tony Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Although Kerrighed looks very promising, it is also quite fragile in our hands. If one node crashes, you lose the entire cluster. That said, the Kerrighed project is extremely well supported and I believe it will be a good alternative in th

Re: [Beowulf] A simple cluster

2008-07-07 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 08:59:28PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greg wrote: > > > Many-core chips that look like a big x86 SMP don't look anything like > > a GPU. With the addition of a few commuications primitives, MPI > > will run even better on big x86 SMPs. All of the programming > > appr

Re: [Beowulf] mdns

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Aquilina
i have used both but i prefer linux. server 2k3 is to much of a resource hog. i would love to try this out in a small server environment thing is i dont have any machiens with me at the moment to test mdns out on they r all back in the states On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Ashley Pittman < [EMAIL

Re: [Beowulf] /usr/local over NFS is okay, Joe

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Forrest
Tony Travis wrote: In particular, Sun went out of their way to move a lot of things from /bin into /usr/bin precisely so it could be shared by NFS. I also agree with the widely used convention that '/usr/local' means local to the site, not the particular machine. The way we used to this abo

Re: [Beowulf] mdns

2008-07-07 Thread Ashley Pittman
There are two parts to mdns, automatic address configuration and then the advertising of services on top of those addresses. I'm not sure which of these you are asking about, I realised after I'd hit send that my answer only applied to the second of these. At home I use what according to Wikiped

Re: [Beowulf] mdns

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Aquilina
can u clarify what you mean by sound server. so basically what you are telling me if there is a windows dns server (active directory in server 2k3) mdns can replace the active directory server? also is there a way to curtail the network bottle necks? On 7/7/08, Ashley Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Aquilina
well right now i have no funding what so ever im trying to scrape together a few machines. being from houston and going to a private institute there i have had my ins and outs with higher education IT. i agree with what you are saying and now it makes totally perfect sense. also in addition to off

Re: [Beowulf] mdns

2008-07-07 Thread Ashley Pittman
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 15:59 +0200, Jon Aquilina wrote: > is mdns strictly for the mac os or can it be incorporated into any > linux cluster?? It works under Linux, my sound server at home and the printers at work use this quite satisfactorily. I would caution against using it in a cluster however

[Beowulf] mdns

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Aquilina
is mdns strictly for the mac os or can it be incorporated into any linux cluster?? -- Jonathan Aquilina ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Beowulf] which version of the gpl

2008-07-07 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Jon Aquilina wrote: what is the difference between version 2 and 3? In a nutshell: 2 is/was on everything in the gnu universe until about a year ago, but the gnu lawyers were concerned about a few technical points so they invented 3 which is marginally stronger. If you wa

Re: [Beowulf] which version of the gpl

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Aquilina
what is the difference between version 2 and 3? On 7/7/08, Robert G. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Jon Aquilina wrote: > > im getting ready to start the development of my own clustering distro. im >> going to be registering it on lanuchpad.net to help me keep track of bu

Re: [Beowulf] 32 bit or 64bit pkgs re /usr/local over NFS is okay, Joe

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Aquilina
im would like at some point in time to migrate to a fully 64bit os and leave 32 bit behind at least for the time being. On 7/7/08, Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 7 Jul 2008, at 11:29 am, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > > >> >> Jon Aquilina wrote: >> >>> so what your telling me to make sure

Re: [Beowulf] 32 bit or 64bit pkgs re /usr/local over NFS is okay, Joe

2008-07-07 Thread Tim Cutts
On 7 Jul 2008, at 11:29 am, Carsten Aulbert wrote: Jon Aquilina wrote: so what your telling me to make sure im running 64bit bins is to check the /usr/bin. if im not im best compiling from source? Well other possiblities are: look at the output of uname -a if you get i686 you are runni

Re: [Beowulf] which version of the gpl

2008-07-07 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Jon Aquilina wrote: im getting ready to start the development of my own clustering distro. im going to be registering it on lanuchpad.net to help me keep track of bugs and for users to post suggestions. how do i determine which version of the gpl to use? The only place you

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

2008-07-07 Thread Gerry Creager
Jon Aquilina wrote: in my case where money isnt an issue wouldnt it be better for me to build a raid backup array? i understand your reasoning. im still studying and fairly new in the higher education of IT so when i start working ill keep what you mentioned to heart. only problem is that where

Re: [Beowulf] 32 bit or 64bit pkgs re /usr/local over NFS is okay, Joe

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Aquilina
do u happen to have gtalk by any chance. i downloaded the 64bit version of kubuntu. i think the kernel is a 64bit kernel but i suspect that the pre pkged debians arent or might not be? On 7/7/08, Carsten Aulbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Jon Aquilina wrote: > > so what your telling me to

Re: [Beowulf] 32 bit or 64bit pkgs re /usr/local over NFS is okay, Joe

2008-07-07 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Jon Aquilina wrote: > so what your telling me to make sure im running 64bit bins is to check > the /usr/bin. if im not im best compiling from source? Well other possiblities are: look at the output of uname -a if you get i686 you are running a 32bit kernel if the output contains x64_64 you are

Re: [Beowulf] 32 bit or 64bit pkgs re /usr/local over NFS is okay, Joe

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Aquilina
so what your telling me to make sure im running 64bit bins is to check the /usr/bin. if im not im best compiling from source? On 7/7/08, Carsten Aulbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Jon Aquilina wrote: > > how does 1 determine if pkgs installed are 32 or 64? im running kubuntu > > and use al

Re: [Beowulf] 32 bit or 64bit pkgs re /usr/local over NFS is okay, Joe

2008-07-07 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Jon Aquilina wrote: > how does 1 determine if pkgs installed are 32 or 64? im running kubuntu > and use alot of the pre pkged stuff. Blind shot: $ file /usr/bin/file /usr/bin/file: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, dynamically linked (uses shared lib

[Beowulf] 32 bit or 64bit pkgs re /usr/local over NFS is okay, Joe

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Aquilina
how does 1 determine if pkgs installed are 32 or 64? im running kubuntu and use alot of the pre pkged stuff. -- Jonathan Aquilina ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.b

[Beowulf] which version of the gpl

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Aquilina
im getting ready to start the development of my own clustering distro. im going to be registering it on lanuchpad.net to help me keep track of bugs and for users to post suggestions. how do i determine which version of the gpl to use? -- Jonathan Aquilina