Re: [Beowulf] Supermicro 2U

2009-02-23 Thread Mark Hahn
There was in the PCI/PCI-X era -- sometimes you had to downclock the not to mention the fact that PCI/PCI-X is often an actual bus, ie, multidrop. PCI-E is always point-to-point, so avoid some of the worst challenges of buses. PCI-E also has a per-transfer CRC...

Re: [Beowulf] ifort and gfortran

2009-02-23 Thread Dave van Leeuwen
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 12:39 -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > > When gfortran is used, then we get > > "segmentation fault" in the middle/during the > > parameter setting stage of the computation. > > I would be grateful if you > > have any idea on how to treat this problem. > > compile with gfortran and

Re: [Beowulf] Supermicro 2U

2009-02-23 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:30:24AM -0800, Lucas Sheehan wrote: > Is there really that much effect from a riser or other connector? There was in the PCI/PCI-X era -- sometimes you had to downclock the bus (a BIOS option) to get it to work reliably. And it was very important to use a riser which wa

[Beowulf] Re: ifort and gfortran

2009-02-23 Thread David Mathog
Mark Hahn wrote > > When gfortran is used, then we get > > "segmentation fault" in the middle/during the > > parameter setting stage of the computation. > > I would be grateful if you > > have any idea on how to treat this problem. > > compile with gfortran and add -g. then run inside gdb. > w

Re: [Beowulf] Supermicro 2U

2009-02-23 Thread Nifty Tom Mitchell
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:30:24AM -0800, Lucas Sheehan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Nifty Tom Mitchell > wrote: > > > > In general a landed on motherboard chip set solution can be less expensive > > than a MB+card solution. The lack of a PCIe connector and riser can > > improve PC

Re: [Beowulf] ifort and gfortran

2009-02-23 Thread Nifty Tom Mitchell
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:39:33PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: >> When gfortran is used, then we get >> "segmentation fault" in the middle/during the >> parameter setting stage of the computation. >> I would be grateful if you >> have any idea on how to treat this problem. > > compile with gfortran and

Re: [Beowulf] Nehalem Xeons 55** series

2009-02-23 Thread Tiago Marques
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: > AMD Opteron "Shangai" 6MB L3 : 90% of peak >> Intel "Nehalem" Core i7 : 95.2% of peak >> Intel Itanium 2 : 95.6% of peak >> > > interesting numbers, and Goto's efforts are always respected. > it would be valuable to understand why, though. I us

Re: [Beowulf] ifort and gfortran

2009-02-23 Thread Xavier Andrade
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, f.cos...@cs.man.ac.uk wrote: Dear All, This is not directly relate to parallel computing but I may be able to get your skills/knowledge. We have developed a fortran code and we can compile it with bot intel-fortran and gfortran without any error message. When we run it, t

Re: [Beowulf] ifort and gfortran

2009-02-23 Thread Dmitri Chubarov
Dear Fumie, does the code read anything from a file? Note, there are many non-standard features in intel fortran, so that the code that works correctly under ifort might behave differently when compiled under a different compiler. Among these features are - support for lines longer than 132 chara

Re: [Beowulf] Supermicro 2U

2009-02-23 Thread Lucas Sheehan
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Nifty Tom Mitchell wrote: > > In general a landed on motherboard chip set solution can be less expensive > than a MB+card solution. The lack of a PCIe connector and riser can > improve PCIe signal quality. The IB chip set is close to the 4x connector > which i

[Beowulf] Re: Beowulf Digest, Vol 60, Issue 38

2009-02-23 Thread Cham Dorton
> > > . HP MPI works pretty well also, though it (and > other binary only stacks) tend to be hard linked against (older) > particular Infiniband stacks ... makes support ... well ... challenging. > We have not found that to be the case with HP-MPI, the latest HP-MPI 2.3 release supports up throu

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Problems scaling performance to more than one node, GbE

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Bogdan Costescu wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Tiago Marques wrote: > > I must ask, doesn't anybody on this list run like 16 cores on two > > nodes well, for a code and job that completes like in a week? > > For GROMACS and other MD programs, the way a job runs depends o

Re: [Beowulf] ifort and gfortran

2009-02-23 Thread Mark Hahn
When gfortran is used, then we get "segmentation fault" in the middle/during the parameter setting stage of the computation. I would be grateful if you have any idea on how to treat this problem. compile with gfortran and add -g. then run inside gdb. when compiled, are there any warning message

[Beowulf] ifort and gfortran

2009-02-23 Thread f.cos...@cs.man.ac.uk
Dear All, This is not directly relate to parallel computing but I may be able to get your skills/knowledge. We have developed a fortran code and we can compile it with bot intel-fortran and gfortran without any error message. When we run it, the code runs when intel-fortran ifort was used for th

Re: [Beowulf] Supermicro 2U

2009-02-23 Thread Huw Lynes
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 16:10 +, John Hearns wrote: > It is a tad lame to repeat articles from HPCwire here, but I can't help it. > New. Shiny. http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/2UTwin2.cfm > > The nice thing is that the motherboards are hot-swap from the rear - > so these things > offer th

Re: [Beowulf] Supermicro 2U

2009-02-23 Thread Nifty Tom Mitchell
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 07:46:57AM -0500, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 04:10:33PM +, John Hearns wrote: > > It is a tad lame to repeat articles from HPCwire here, but I can't help it. > > New. Shiny. http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/2UTwin2.cfm > > So it gets to use