Re: [Beowulf] Should I go for diskless or not?

2009-05-15 Thread Lawrence Stewart
On May 15, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Ashley Pittman wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 06:43 -0400, Lawrence Stewart wrote: I'll echo the remarks about swapping, there is a large patch set for swapping over IP, and we don't run that. In fact right now we run without swap space, and vm_overcommit_ratio set

[Beowulf] [potentially off-topic] hiring consultant(s) w/ HPC experience

2009-05-15 Thread Chris Dagdigian
Hi folks, I think job postings from principals are OK for these lists, apologies in advance if they are not. (Posting under my personal address since that is how I'm subscribed to these lists. Strictly speaking I'm posting on behalf of my company though) Summery: BioTeam is a small consul

Re: [Beowulf] Should I go for diskless or not?

2009-05-15 Thread Ashley Pittman
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 06:43 -0400, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > I'll echo the remarks about swapping, there is a large patch set for > swapping over IP, and we don't run that. In fact right now we run > without swap space, and vm_overcommit_ratio set to "90". This is > generous enough that we're

Re: [Beowulf] Should I go for diskless or not?

2009-05-15 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:00:14AM -0400, Joe Landman wrote: > With the advent of buzz words^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htechnologies like the > cloud(TM)(c)(SM)*, I have a sense that stateful (disk based) installs > are a thing of the past. The cloud environments that I have observed all used heavy

Re: [Beowulf] Should I go for diskless or not?

2009-05-15 Thread Joe Landman
John Hearns wrote: 2009/5/15 Joe Landman : Swap is an issue. A somewhat hard to solve issue ... we'd recommend actually turning off swap (and swappiness in the kernel) for diskless. Or put a USB drive in each machine and swap on that, though, honestly, that is as reliable as swapping over th

Re: [Beowulf] Should I go for diskless or not?

2009-05-15 Thread John Hearns
2009/5/15 Joe Landman : >>>  Swap is an issue.  A somewhat hard to solve issue ... we'd recommend > actually turning off swap (and swappiness in the kernel) for diskless.  Or > put a USB drive in each machine and swap on that, though, honestly, that is > as reliable as swapping over the network. E.

Re: [Beowulf] Should I go for diskless or not?

2009-05-15 Thread Joe Landman
Douglas Eadline wrote: You will note that I used sufficient wiggle words "usually" and "generally" because in my experience it always depends. And of course my comments are from my personal experience. I have found that diskless allows for the entire cluster to be "re provisioned" without have in

Re: [Beowulf] Should I go for diskless or not?

2009-05-15 Thread Douglas Eadline
You will note that I used sufficient wiggle words "usually" and "generally" because in my experience it always depends. And of course my comments are from my personal experience. I have found that diskless allows for the entire cluster to be "re provisioned" without have into re-image disks. Reboot

Re: [Beowulf] Should I go for diskless or not?

2009-05-15 Thread John Hearns
2009/5/15 Jonathan Aquilina : > also dont forget the more nodes you have booting off the master the > more access time your gonna need to do a pxe boot from the one master > node. if you plan on splitting things up once you notice a degredation > in booting performance and putting a certain number

Re: [Beowulf] Should I go for diskless or not?

2009-05-15 Thread Lawrence Stewart
On 5/13/09, Dr Cool Santa wrote: I have a cluster of identical computers. We are planning to add more nodes later. I was thinking whether I should go the diskless nodes way or not? Diskless nodes seems as a really exciting, interesting and good option, however when I did it I needed to t

[Beowulf] PhD position: AXA Fund Competition

2009-05-15 Thread f.cos...@cs.man.ac.uk
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