Re: [Beowulf] clustering using xen virtualized machines

2010-01-25 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
woudl somethign like this be useful for lets say setting up a system that works with AI and voice recognition? -- Jonathan Aquilina ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode o

Re: [Beowulf] Logging MCE information on next warm boot?

2010-01-25 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:46:31AM -0800, David Mathog wrote: > Is it possible to have the Machine Check Exception (MCE) information > saved to disk automatically on the next warm boot? You can use a serial or serial-over-lan console to capture it. You can take a photo of the screen. Be sure to

Re: [Beowulf] Logging MCE information on next warm boot?

2010-01-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg Keller writes: >> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:46:31 -0800 >> From: "David Mathog" >> Subject: [Beowulf] Logging MCE information on next warm boot? >> To: beowulf@beowulf.org >> Message-ID: >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >> >> Is it possible to have the Machine Check Exceptio

Re: [Beowulf] clustering using xen virtualized machines

2010-01-25 Thread Ashley Pittman
On 25 Jan 2010, at 15:28, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > has anyone tried clustering using xen based vm's. what is everyones take on > that? its something that popped into my head while in my lectures today. I've been using Amazon ec2 for clustering for months now, from a software perspective it's

[Beowulf] WhisperingWulf: A Silent Personal Cluster

2010-01-25 Thread Douglas Eadline
For those of you who hate fan noise (or have some free time, aluminum, and want impress you colleagues), have a look at WhisperingWulf: A Silent Personal Cluster http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/273/1/ -- Doug ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beo

Re: [Beowulf] clustering using xen virtualized machines

2010-01-25 Thread Douglas Eadline
You may want to look at this: Building A Virtual Cluster with Xen http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/139/33/ -- Doug > has anyone tried clustering using xen based vm's. what is everyones take > on > that? its something that popped into my head while in my lectures today. > > -- > Jon

Re: [Beowulf] Logging MCE information on next warm boot?

2010-01-25 Thread Greg Keller
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:46:31 -0800 From: "David Mathog" Subject: [Beowulf] Logging MCE information on next warm boot? To: beowulf@beowulf.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Is it possible to have the Machine Check Exception (MCE) information saved to disk automatica

[Beowulf] Logging MCE information on next warm boot?

2010-01-25 Thread David Mathog
Is it possible to have the Machine Check Exception (MCE) information saved to disk automatically on the next warm boot? Long form: A K7 node crashed yesterday and left an MCE on the screen which I copied down as: CPU 0 machine check exception 0007 Bank 1 F853 Bank 2 94004

[Beowulf] clustering using xen virtualized machines

2010-01-25 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
has anyone tried clustering using xen based vm's. what is everyones take on that? its something that popped into my head while in my lectures today. -- Jonathan Aquilina ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To cha

Re: [Beowulf] rhel page_size

2010-01-25 Thread Håkon Bugge
On Jan 22, 2010, at 21:14 , Michael Di Domenico wrote: > Nope, haven't gotten that far yet. I seemed to recall (or atleast i > thought i had) that i could easily change the page size during kernel > compile. perhaps that was way back in the day or i'm just losing it. > figured it'd be a quick e

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel file systems

2010-01-25 Thread Rob Latham
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:27:41AM -0600, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote: > Haven't set up PVFS, but after reading some articles I get the feeling > that it can only write data using a striped method across IOD's. > Gluster gives you a bit more flexibility and robustness since there's > also the distribut