Re: [Beowulf] NVidia woes

2009-04-12 Thread Franz Marini
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 12:29 -0500, Sellers, William A. (LARC-D205)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS] wrote: > I wish NVIDIA would support yum. NVidia, are you listening? Keeping the > kernel updated with the real nvidia driver is a pain, but needed is you run > the real nvidia driver (like we do). For

Re: [Beowulf] Beowulf Storage Node

2009-04-12 Thread Mark Hahn
Will such a Storage Node (E8400, 2x 1 GB DDR2 PC6400 RAM, iG33 integrated video) be comparable in performance with the same computer as a Storage Node, but with PCI-Ex8 3WARE 512 MB SAS RAID 0 controller installed with 2x 147 GB 15000 rpm HDDs? There will be 2x PCI-Ex1 GLAN NICs. it depends t

Re: [Beowulf] NVidia woes

2009-04-12 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Joe Landman wrote: Sellers, William A. (LARC-D205)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS] wrote: I wish NVIDIA would support yum. NVidia, are you listening? Keeping the kernel updated with the real nvidia driver is a pain, but needed is you run the real nvidia driver (like we do). For

Re: [Beowulf] Beowulf Storage Node

2009-04-12 Thread Joe Landman
Matt Lawrence wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Залетнев Дмитрий wrote: I have a motherboard with 4x SATAII-ports and without RAID. If I'll connect to these ports 4 identical SATAII 250 GB 7200 rpm HDDs and install Linux, is it possible to have software RAID 0 using Linux? Sure it is. The only is

Re: [Beowulf] NVidia woes

2009-04-12 Thread Skylar Thompson
Sellers, William A. (LARC-D205)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS] wrote: > I wish NVIDIA would support yum. NVidia, are you listening? Keeping the > kernel updated with the real nvidia driver is a pain, but needed is you run > the real nvidia driver (like we do). For those not experienced with RHEL and

Re: [Beowulf] Beowulf Storage Node

2009-04-12 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Залетнев Дмитрий wrote: I have a motherboard with 4x SATAII-ports and without RAID. If I'll connect to these ports 4 identical SATAII 250 GB 7200 rpm HDDs and install Linux, is it possible to have software RAID 0 using Linux? Sure it is. The only issue you may run into i

Re: [Beowulf] NVidia woes

2009-04-12 Thread Karen Shaeffer
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:29:51PM -0500, Sellers, William A. (LARC-D205)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS] wrote: > > I wish NVIDIA would support yum. NVidia, are you listening? Keeping the > kernel updated with the real nvidia driver is a pain, but needed is you run > the real nvidia driver (like we

Re: [Beowulf] Beowulf Storage Node

2009-04-12 Thread Joe Landman
??? wrote: I have a motherboard with 4x SATAII-ports and without RAID. If I'll connect to these ports 4 identical SATAII 250 GB 7200 rpm HDDs and install Linux, is it possible to have software RAID 0 using Linux? Yes. Try man mdadm on for size. Will such a Storage No

Re: [Beowulf] NVidia woes

2009-04-12 Thread Joe Landman
Sellers, William A. (LARC-D205)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS] wrote: I wish NVIDIA would support yum. NVidia, are you listening? Keeping the kernel updated with the real nvidia driver is a pain, but needed is you run the real nvidia driver (like we do). For those not experienced with RHEL and nvidi

Re: [Beowulf] OT: Windows tex editors/processors

2009-04-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:30:55 -0400 "Peter St. John" wrote: > One of the things I like about VIM is that I can install it everywhere. I > use it on VMS, as well as unices and MSWin. That vivivi is the Editor of the > Beast just adds flavor :-) vim.org has MSWin self-extracting executable. > Peter

[Beowulf] NVidia woes

2009-04-12 Thread Sellers, William A. (LARC-D205)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS]
I wish NVIDIA would support yum. NVidia, are you listening? Keeping the kernel updated with the real nvidia driver is a pain, but needed is you run the real nvidia driver (like we do). For those not experienced with RHEL and nvidia kernel modules, when you install a new kernel, you have to r

[Beowulf] Beowulf Storage Node

2009-04-12 Thread Залетнев Дмитрий
I have a motherboard with 4x SATAII-ports and without RAID. If I'll connect to these ports 4 identical SATAII 250 GB 7200 rpm HDDs and install Linux, is it possible to have software RAID 0 using Linux? Will such a Storage Node (E8400, 2x 1 GB DDR2 PC6400 RAM, iG33 integrated video) be comparabl

Re: [Beowulf] Breaking: IBM pulls bid for Sun Microsoft+Yahoo redux

2009-04-12 Thread Peter St. John
Sun's stock price "tumbled" but it's still up 30% from a month ago. The price nearly doubled, in anticipation of what IBM would pay; so that collapsed when the deal did, but still left them ahead of where they had been. Peter On 4/6/09, Joe Landman wrote: > > Huw Lynes wrote: > >> On Sun, 2009-04

Re: [Beowulf] Surviving a double disk failure

2009-04-12 Thread Guy Coates
Stuart Midgley wrote: > Thanks to all the responses, it has been interesting reading. We have > started using raid6 on newer servers and will slowely get rid of our old > raid5 servers. > > I found the comments about scrubbing very interesting. What do people > do with their file systems? We co