Re: [Beowulf] AMD 6100 vs Intel 5600

2010-03-31 Thread Kilian CAVALOTTI
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Bill Broadley wrote: >> I would say that the 2x6-cores Magny-Cours probably has to be compared >> to Nehalem-EX. > > Why? Maybe first because that's where the core spaces from AMD and Intel intersect (8-cores Beckton and 8-cores Magny-Cours). I'm not sure it's re

[Beowulf] CfP with Extended Deadline 5th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC'10)

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Alexander
Apologies if you received multiple copies of this message. = CALL FOR PAPERS 5th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing VHPC'10 as part of Euro-Par 2010, Island of Ischia-Naples, Italy ==

Re: [Beowulf] AMD 6100 vs Intel 5600

2010-03-31 Thread C. Bergström
Bill Broadley wrote: ... Seems like AMDs offering more memory memory bandwidth and specFP rate per dollar. Certainly enough to have me looking for an account to measure performance on our codes. While for my own selfish reasons I'm happy AMD may have some chance at a comeback, but... I caut

Re: [Beowulf] AMD 6100 vs Intel 5600

2010-03-31 Thread Bill Broadley
On 03/31/2010 10:37 AM, Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> Looks like it's time to start evaluating the AMD 6100 (magny-cours) >> offerings versus the Intel 5600 (Nehalem-EX?) offerings. Any suggestions >> for resources? > > Just for the sake of

Re: [Beowulf] AMD 6100 vs Intel 5600

2010-03-31 Thread Kilian CAVALOTTI
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > Looks like it's time to start evaluating the AMD 6100 (magny-cours) > offerings versus the Intel 5600 (Nehalem-EX?) offerings.  Any suggestions > for resources? Just for the sake of precision, Intel 5600 series was codenamed Westmere (dual

Re: [Beowulf] AMD 6100 vs Intel 5600

2010-03-31 Thread stephen mulcahy
Orion Poplawski wrote: Looks like it's time to start evaluating the AMD 6100 (magny-cours) offerings versus the Intel 5600 (Nehalem-EX?) offerings. Any suggestions for resources? http://www.anandtech.com/show/2978/amd-s-12-core-magny-cours-opteron-6174-vs-intel-s-6-core-xeon/10 has some be

[Beowulf] AMD 6100 vs Intel 5600

2010-03-31 Thread Orion Poplawski
Looks like it's time to start evaluating the AMD 6100 (magny-cours) offerings versus the Intel 5600 (Nehalem-EX?) offerings. Any suggestions for resources? -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA DivisionFAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mi

Re: [Beowulf] HP 10 GbE card use/warranty

2010-03-31 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Steve Cousins writes: > I installed one of the supported distributions (or close enough): CentOS 5. Driver installation went fine and I was able to get one of the cards to work. The other one seems to be bad. The nx_nic driver loads but no eth2 device shows up. Als