Re: [Beowulf] fftw2, mpi, from 32 bit to 64 and fortran

2008-08-04 Thread Gus Correa
Salve Ricardo Reis and list Ricardo Reis wrote: Hi all After backtracing and lots of going around I found out the problem. The routine to calculate the fft had a parameter for using or not using a buffer array which I wasn't passing through. Thanks all for your help and sorry to distu

Re: [Beowulf] Building new cluster - estimate

2008-08-04 Thread Joe Landman
Matt Lawrence wrote: So, any good info on kernel configuration when I go to build a new rpm? Don't start with the distro .src.rpm for the kernel. Build your own, and integrate your patches manually. Best way is take the barebones kernel from kernel.org, do a 'make rpm-pkg' on it (will gene

Re: [Beowulf] Building new cluster - estimate

2008-08-04 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Joe Landman wrote: I haven't seen or heard anyone claim xfs 'routinely locks up their system'. I won't comment on your friends "sharpness". I will point out that several very large data stores/large cluster sites use xfs. By definition, no large data store can be built wi

Re: [Beowulf] Building new cluster - estimate

2008-08-04 Thread Joe Landman
Matt Lawrence wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Joe Landman wrote: This mirrors our experience, though RHEL stability under intense loads is questionable IMO (talking about the kernel BTW). We find that the missing drivers, the omitted drivers, the backported drivers along with some odd and often

Re: [Beowulf] Building new cluster - estimate

2008-08-04 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Joe Landman wrote: This mirrors our experience, though RHEL stability under intense loads is questionable IMO (talking about the kernel BTW). We find that the missing drivers, the omitted drivers, the backported drivers along with some odd and often useless "features" (4k

Re: [Beowulf] fftw2, mpi, from 32 bit to 64 and fortran

2008-08-04 Thread Mark Kosmowski
> > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 13:49:11 +0100 (WEST) > From: Ricardo Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] fftw2, mpi, from 32 bit to 64 and fortran > To: beowulf@beowulf.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" > > > Hi all > > A

Re: [Beowulf] Building new cluster - estimate

2008-08-04 Thread Joe Landman
Chris Samuel wrote: - "Bogdan Costescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Chris Samuel wrote: 1) Use a mainline kernel, we've found benefit of that over stock CentOS kernels. Care to comment on this statement ? a) We found that we got better performance out of the mainlin

Re: [Beowulf] Building new cluster - estimate

2008-08-04 Thread Gerry Creager
Chris Samuel wrote: - "Bogdan Costescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Chris Samuel wrote: 1) Use a mainline kernel, we've found benefit of that over stock CentOS kernels. Care to comment on this statement ? a) We found that we got better performance out of the mainlin