Mark Hahn wrote:
Somehow it works on Fedora 10, but not on CentOS 4 and 5.
what version does hdparm -v mention on each system?
Hi Mark, list
Thank you Mark.
Sorry for my very late answer.
Anyway, better late than never.
The hdparm versions I have are:
8.6 on Fedora 10,
6.6 on CentOS 5,
5.7
* if the /var filesystem is shared, race conditions happen (all nodes
want to write on the same files). I had this problem and moved to a
local /var filesystem.
indeed, shared /var is simply a bug. non-shared NFS /var is viable,
but generally pointless.
* if /var is local (which it may becaus
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Hearns, John wrote:
>
> Gil, I can't answer your questions because I don't know who supplied
> your cluster -
> there are many cluster management suites.
>
The cluster is a Debian based beowulf-like cluster (we have supplied
our selves).
>
> You can set up syslo
In my personal experience, I developed long time ago CFD software on a single
machine with a single core.
Once I started complicating my life with more complex problems (eg. from 2D to
3D), the time it was taking to solve the problems was growing exponentially (
from hours to several weeks). Theref
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Hearns, John wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>
> I relatively new to cluster environments and I was given a small
> (7nodes+1head) cluster to admin. So far I only had to maintain what
> was already installed so few problems to solve (and to think on). But
> new (diferent: am
So, I was thinking of making a cluster, but wondered: what are the
practical uses of one?
I don't think you really mean practical here. perhaps "commonplace"?
I mean, you can't exactly run Windows on these
things,
but why do you equate practical with "runs windows"? a lot of the
wider com
would creating a cron job for each of the nodes to where only one is workign
on the files on the head node?
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:11 AM, wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>
> I relatively new to cluster environments and I was given a small
> (7nodes+1head) cluster to admin. So far I only had to maintain
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, J Bickhard wrote:
So, I was thinking of making a cluster, but wondered: what are the
practical uses of one? I mean, you can't exactly run Windows on these
things, and it looks like they're mostly for parallel computing of
complex algorithms.
Would an average Joe like me hav
