Re: [Beowulf] Register survey on HPC

2010-02-12 Thread Douglas Guptill
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:56:56PM -, Hearns, John wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/12/hpc_for_the_masses/ There is a sentence in there which, taken out of context and suitably edited, really tickles me: "Microsoft's Windows is ... seen as potentially useful by almost half of re

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Third-party drives not permitted on new Dell servers?

2010-02-12 Thread MDG
Well here is a small taste of problems with Dell and PERC controllers, I have tried to use Dell Perc Controllers all the way back to Perc 2 Quad-Channels, I needed new batteries for the back up memory I ordered using Dell's own part number they sent the wrong part, I returned, I sent them the AC

[Beowulf] PVM 3.4.5-12 terminates when adding Host on Ubuntu 9.10

2010-02-12 Thread Tsz Kuen Ching
Whenever I attempt to add a host in PVM it ends up terminating the process in the master program. The process does run in the slave node, however because the PVM terminates I do not get access to the node. I'm currently using Ubuntu 9.10, and I used apt-get to install pvm ( pvmlib, pvmdev, pvm). T

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Third-party drives not permitted on new Dell servers?

2010-02-12 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:52:03AM -0600, Gerry Creager wrote: > Who do they think they are? NetApp? That's what you get for buying commodity stuff that's not marketed to you. If you have a business-critical database that needs a lot of 9's of uptime, and to never, ever lose data, it makes sense

[Beowulf] Register survey on HPC

2010-02-12 Thread Hearns, John
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/12/hpc_for_the_masses/ It's as close as the IT industry will ever get to "2 Fast, 2 Furious" - gangs of highly technical experts pushing their custom-built computers to the limit with an aim to win that ultimate prize, a place in the world supercomputing ranki

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Third-party drives not permitted on new Dell servers?

2010-02-12 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Gerry Creager wrote: > We discussed this in our HPC group meeting yesterday. I've long been > dissatisfied with PERC controllers, but this is now a show-stopper for me. I > might order Dell, but not the PERC, ever again.  Who do they think they are? > NetApp? Do

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Third-party drives not permitted on new Dell servers?

2010-02-12 Thread Gerry Creager
We discussed this in our HPC group meeting yesterday. I've long been dissatisfied with PERC controllers, but this is now a show-stopper for me. I might order Dell, but not the PERC, ever again. Who do they think they are? NetApp? gerry Reuti wrote: Hi, Am 12.02.2010 um 09:51 schrieb Kilian

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Third-party drives not permitted on new Dell servers?

2010-02-12 Thread stephen mulcahy
Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Rahul Nabar wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Rahul Nabar wrote: I came across this very interesting thread on a related mailing list that I thought would be quite relevant to those of us using Dell hardware. Apparently Dell has

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Third-party drives not permitted on new Dell servers?

2010-02-12 Thread Reuti
Hi, Am 12.02.2010 um 09:51 schrieb Kilian CAVALOTTI: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Rahul Nabar wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Rahul Nabar wrote: I came across this very interesting thread on a related mailing list that I thought would be quite relevant to those of us using

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Third-party drives not permitted on new Dell servers?

2010-02-12 Thread Kilian CAVALOTTI
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Rahul Nabar wrote: >> I came across this very interesting thread on a related mailing  list >> that I thought would be quite relevant to those of us using Dell >> hardware. Apparently Dell has started hardware-

[Beowulf] Re: Third-party drives not permitted on new Dell servers?

2010-02-12 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > I came across this very interesting thread on a related mailing  list > that I thought would be quite relevant to those of us using Dell > hardware. Apparently Dell has started hardware-blocking hard-drives > that are not "Dell certified". I g