Re: [Beowulf] SATA L shaped cable terminology question

2010-03-08 Thread Michael Di Domenico
my guess would be there are two cables because the sata cables are not overly flexible at the joint having the connector tail in either the up direction or down direction could save a loop of cable in the chassis On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:28 PM, David Mathog wrote: > SATA cables may be purchased

[Beowulf] SATA L shaped cable terminology question

2010-03-08 Thread David Mathog
SATA cables may be purchased with an L shaped connector. I just looked at 10 of them and they were all like this when looking into the open end of the angled connector (ASCII art): +---+ | | | --+ | || | +--++-

Re: [Beowulf] assigning cores to queues with torque

2010-03-08 Thread richard . walsh
Micha Feigin wrote: >The problem: > >I want to allow gpu related jobs to run only on the gpu >equiped nodes (i.e more jobs then GPUs will be queued), >I want to run other jobs on all nodes with either: > > 1. a priority to use the gpu equiped nodes last > 2. or better, use only two out of

Re: [Beowulf] Windows Master, Linux Slaves

2010-03-08 Thread Vallard Benincosa
We do it the opposite way quite frequently: Linux master node with Windows slaves. You could at the very least install the Linux servers from Windows over the network. Setup a Windows DHCP/HTTP server. Then you could at the very least 'kickstart' or 'autoyast' the nodes. Not sure about the soft

Re: [Beowulf] assigning cores to queues with torque

2010-03-08 Thread Glen Beane
On 3/8/10 10:14 AM, "Micha Feigin" wrote: I have a small local cluster in our lab that I'm trying to setup with minimum hustle to support both cpu and gpu processing where only some of the nodes have a gpu and those have only two gpu for four cores. It is currently setup using torque from ubu

[Beowulf] assigning cores to queues with torque

2010-03-08 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a small local cluster in our lab that I'm trying to setup with minimum hustle to support both cpu and gpu processing where only some of the nodes have a gpu and those have only two gpu for four cores. It is currently setup using torque from ubuntu (2.3.6) with the torque supplied scheduler