Re: [Beowulf] Need some advise: Sun storage' management server hangs repeatedly

2010-01-13 Thread Skylar Thompson
Sangamesh B wrote: > Hi HPC experts, > > I seek your advise/suggestion to resolve a storage(NAS) server' > repeated hanging problem. > > We've a 23 nodes Rocks-5.1 HPC cluster. The Sun storage of > capacity 12 TB is connected to a management server Sun Fire X4150 > installed with RHEL 5.3

Re: [Beowulf] are compute nodes always kept in a private I/P and switch space?

2010-01-13 Thread Skylar Thompson
Rahul Nabar wrote: > I always took it as natural to keep all compute nodes on a private > switch and assigned them local I/P addresses. This was almost > axiomatic for an HPC application in my mind. This way I can channel > all traffic to the world and logins while a select login-node. Then > firew

Re: [Beowulf] are compute nodes always kept in a private I/P and switch space?

2010-01-13 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: > we have all our compute nodes on private addresses and also disable NAT. > this does make it somewhat trickier to get external-hosted evil-type > licenses to work (flexlm with vendor daemons).  but I'd say this is a fairly > useful > dividing i

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Sun/AMD HPC for Dummies ebook now as PDF

2010-01-13 Thread Joshua mora acosta
Hi, I think you misinterpreted the tittle. It is what it is, "HPC for dummies". Enough to expose in a plain way to anyone what HPC is, which may not be that easy to make a good summary of such a broad topic in 46 pages. It would be great to see though a tittle like "HPC for the next decade" or "bey

Re: [Beowulf] are compute nodes always kept in a private I/P and switch space?

2010-01-13 Thread Mark Hahn
on the workstation of the user. Other reasons are braindead license servers which are not NATable. Like the ones used by Catia or LS-DYNA. Management could be much easier when the administrator is able to contact every device directly from his workstation. I don't agree with the latter, at all.

Re: [Beowulf] are compute nodes always kept in a private I/P and switch space?

2010-01-13 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Beat Rubischon wrote: > on the workstation of the user. Other reasons are braindead license servers > which are not NATable. Like the ones used by Catia or LS-DYNA. Management > could be much easier when the administrator is able to contact every device > directly

[Beowulf] Re: Sun/AMD HPC for Dummies ebook now as PDF

2010-01-13 Thread Bob Drzyzgula
FYI, I downloaded this and it is 46 pages of cursory, high-level overview of the concept of HPC. It doesn't even have any Rich Tennant cartoons. Just about anyone would get more out of spending an hour following threads out of the Wikipedia High-Performance Computing page. The execption might be a

[Beowulf] Parallel file systems

2010-01-13 Thread tegner
While starting to investigating different storage solutions I came across gluster (www.gluster.com). I did a search on beowulf.org and came up with nothing. gpfs, pvfs and lustre on the other resulted in lots of hits. Anyone with experience of gluster in HPC? Regards, /jon _

[Beowulf] Sun/AMD HPC for Dummies ebook now as PDF

2010-01-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.sun.com/x64/ebooks/hpc.jsp HPC for Dummies HPC enables us to first model then manipulate products, services, and techniques. These days, HPC has moved from a selective and expensive endeavor to a cost-effective enabling technology within reach of virtually every budget. This book w