Re: [Beowulf] Newbie Question: Racks versus boxes and good rack solutions for commodity hardware

2008-12-17 Thread Chris Samuel
- "Vincent Diepeveen" wrote: > It sure takes a couple of minutes to render animations in high > resolutions, yet i'm quite amazed you need more hardware for this, > yes even a cluster. I might be missing something with your argument, but surely if this was the case then there would no nee

Re: [Beowulf] ntpd wonky?

2008-12-17 Thread Nifty Tom Mitchell
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 04:37:33PM -0800, Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:01:31PM -0800, Bernard Li wrote: > > > Have you tried other pools eg. pool.ntp.org? > > That is stable for me. So it's not me, it's Red Hat's pool that's > wonky. > > I see that CentOS switched to using nt

Re: [Beowulf] SSD prices - q: how many writes/erases???

2008-12-17 Thread Nifty Tom Mitchell
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:35:26PM +0100, Peter Jakobi wrote: > > > > Reliability is another question and I posted a quick response to > > > this list in a different email. > > > > This being my big concern with flash. > > related is this topic on SSD / flashes: > > what's the life time when ch

Re: [Beowulf] Inside Tsubame - the Nvidia GPU supercomputer - OpenCL

2008-12-17 Thread Daniel Kidger
Tsubame isn't just about delivering flops to production codes. It is trying to spearhead coprocessing. The people there have been porting codes to ClearSpeed / GPUs for a while - and hence been publishing their experiences. Daniel On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 12:01 +, Loic Tortay wrote: > Florent C

Re: [Beowulf] GPU-HMMer for interested people

2008-12-17 Thread Olli-Pekka Lehto
Joe Landman wrote: Hi folks GPU-HMMer (part of the MPI-HMMer effort) has just been announced/released at http://www.mpihmmer.org MPI-HMMer has itself been improved with parallel-IO and better scalability features. JP has measured some large number (about 180x) over single cores on a cluste

Re: [Beowulf] GPU-HMMer for interested people

2008-12-17 Thread Joe Landman
Hi Olli-Pekka Olli-Pekka Lehto wrote: Joe Landman wrote: Hi folks GPU-HMMer (part of the MPI-HMMer effort) has just been announced/released at http://www.mpihmmer.org MPI-HMMer has itself been improved with parallel-IO and better scalability features. JP has measured some large number (a