Re: [Beowulf] Is this the J. Dongarra of Beowulf fame?

2008-12-24 Thread Alan Louis Scheinine
I have received almost no E-mail today, aside from 15 messages in my Beowulf folder. The significance is left to the reader to interpret. http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/ ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscr

Re: [Beowulf] Is this the J. Dongarra of Beowulf fame?

2008-12-24 Thread Patrick Geoffray
Kyle, Kyle Spaans wrote: Take that as you will, but for me it only means that Prof. Dongarra is only tengentially related to beowulf through NETLIB FORTRAN code. And thusly, probably is not a ``mad scientist'' of beowful fame. ;-) Jack Dongarra's group has produced a large set of free and o

Re: [Beowulf] Is this the J. Dongarra of Beowulf fame?

2008-12-24 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Kyle Spaans wrote: Take that as you will, but for me it only means that Prof. Dongarra is only tengentially related to beowulf through NETLIB FORTRAN code. And thusly, probably is not a ``mad scientist'' of beowful fame. ;-) Dongarra was one of the primary people involv

Re: [Beowulf] Is this the J. Dongarra of Beowulf fame?

2008-12-24 Thread Kyle Spaans
Personally, as a 20-year-old enthusiast of beowulfish interests, I've only heard of Mr. Dongarra twice. First from a Swedish mathematics grad student in the #fortran IRC channel, talking about the FORTRAN legacy that Dongarra left behind with NETLIB code. In particular his coding style was menti

Re: [Beowulf] Is this the J. Dongarra of Beowulf fame?

2008-12-24 Thread Patrick Geoffray
Lux, James P wrote: Recognizing the name, I’m prompted to ask the real question, is Jack an Italian mad scientist? Jack has Sicilian roots. Patrick ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe)

Re: [Beowulf] Is this the J. Dongarra of Beowulf fame?

2008-12-24 Thread richard . walsh
All, Actually the name is Sicilian ... although Jack is from Chicago as I recall. rbw - Original Message - From: "Robert G. Brown" To: "James P Lux" Cc: "Beowulf Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 4:56:52 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Beow

Re: [Beowulf] Is this the J. Dongarra of Beowulf fame?

2008-12-24 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Lux, James P wrote: When you spoke with him did he have an Intel mobile phone? Has the effect of If he did, he didn't answer it:-) rgb SciGen spread even wider than for submitting papers to conferences with low standards in exotic locations (how come I never get invi

Re: [Beowulf] Is this the J. Dongarra of Beowulf fame?

2008-12-24 Thread Lux, James P
On 12/24/08 1:56 PM, "Robert G. Brown" wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Lux, James P wrote: > >> Ran across the following quoted line from a SciGen created paper that was >> accepted to a conference and is getting some play on slashdot: >> >> "We performed a quantized emulation on Intelâ(TM)s mob

Re: [Beowulf] Is this the J. Dongarra of Beowulf fame?

2008-12-24 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Lux, James P wrote: Ran across the following quoted line from a SciGen created paper that was accepted to a conference and is getting some play on slashdot: "We performed a quantized emulation on Intelâ(TM)s mobile telephones to prove the work of Italian mad scientist J. Do

[Beowulf] Is this the J. Dongarra of Beowulf fame?

2008-12-24 Thread Lux, James P
Ran across the following quoted line from a SciGen created paper that was accepted to a conference and is getting some play on slashdot: "We performed a quantized emulation on Intelâ(TM)s mobile telephones to prove the work of Italian mad scientist J. Dongarra." Recognizing the name, I'm prompt

[Beowulf] using SNMP to monitor disk usage and load factors on compute-nodes

2008-12-24 Thread Rahul Nabar
I was toying with the idea of monitoring some key stats from my compute-nodes using SNMP (eg. load factors; local disk usage; health of my pbs_moms etc.). Especially since Nagios docs. seem to recommend snmp as a recommended way to do the monitoring of private resources (as opposed to ssh or nrpe p

Re: [Beowulf] Not all cores are created equal

2008-12-24 Thread Chris Samuel
- "John Hearns" wrote: > My prediction for the New Year - someone will > produce a dedicated HPC node with multicore Nehalems, > plus a cheap, single core processor for OS 'housekeeping' > tasks. That's, umm, interesting.. :-) Perhaps with a ULP Core 2 from a notebook as the housekeeping o

Re: [Beowulf] max number of NFS threads: NFS config optimization

2008-12-24 Thread John Hearns
2008/12/24 Chris Samuel > > > Happy Newtonmas [1] all! > > Chris > > [1] - http://www.paeps.cx/weblog/activism/newtonmas.html > > Hey! I recognise that picture - Philip Paeps. A friend of mine, and he organises the annual beer drinking on the eve of the FOSDEM conference in Brussels. And, since t

Re: [Beowulf] Not all cores are created equal

2008-12-24 Thread John Hearns
> I contemplated doing this on our Barcelona cluster, but > sacrificing 1 core in 8 was a bit too much of a high price > to pay. But people with higher core counts per node might > find it attractive. > > My prediction for the New Year - someone will produce a dedicated HPC node with multicore Neh

Re: [Beowulf] max number of NFS threads: NFS config optimization

2008-12-24 Thread Chris Samuel
- "Rahul Nabar" wrote: > >Are you using ext3 for that filesystem by some chance ? > > Thanks Chris! No worries! > It is indeed an ext3. I will give the commit interval > solution a shot. I'd love to know whether that helped (or not) ? Happy Newtonmas [1] all! Chris [1] - http://www.pa

Re: [Beowulf] Not all cores are created equal

2008-12-24 Thread Chris Samuel
- "John Hearns" wrote: > SGI Altix have 'bootcpusets' which means you can slice > off one or two processors to take care of OS housekeeping > tasks, Now that cpusets have been in the mainline kernel for some time you should be able to do this with any modern distro. I contemplated doing th