Re: [Beowulf] dollars-per-teraflop : any lists like the Top500?

2010-07-02 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
On 7/2/10 7:37 AM, "Bill Rankin" wrote: > > > Have a good holiday weekend, for those of us on this side of the pond(*). To > everyone else, have a nice normal weekend. > > -b > > (*) and north of Mexico and south of Canada, unless of course you are in > Alaska or Hawaii. > Yesterday was

RE: [Beowulf] PBS/Maui delay starting of several jobs for certain user

2010-07-02 Thread Hearns, John
> Hi all, > we have a user with jobs that create heavy I/O load on our network file > system every x minutes. If I block her jobs and start them manually > with > a delay of about 10 minutes, she can run about 60 jobs simultaneously. > However, if I don't do that and the jobs are started at more o

RE: [Beowulf] dollars-per-teraflop : any lists like the Top500?

2010-07-02 Thread Bill Rankin
> > Another reason why some vendors are willing to > > sell stuff at reduced prices to universities is > > for visibility. The thinking is that when grad > > students (finally) graduate and go off into > > industry, they'll want to buy the same stuff > > they used when they were students. I'm not

Re: [Beowulf] guide for pbs/torque and mpi

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Crusan
For Toreuq/Maui, go here: http://www.clusterresources.com/products.php There should be manuals for each product. On 6/30/10 3:32 PM, "akshar bhosale" wrote: > hi, >  we want to have a good reference guide for torque(pbs),maui and mpi > > akshar > > >

[Beowulf] PBS/Maui delay starting of several jobs for certain user

2010-07-02 Thread Nico Mittenzwey
Hi all, we have a user with jobs that create heavy I/O load on our network file system every x minutes. If I block her jobs and start them manually with a delay of about 10 minutes, she can run about 60 jobs simultaneously. However, if I don't do that and the jobs are started at more or less the

RE: [Beowulf] dollars-per-teraflop : any lists like the Top500?

2010-07-02 Thread Bill Rankin
David: > > This thread brings to mind the punch line from the second of the SNL > > "Citiwide Change Bank" ads. Here is a link to the transcript: > > > > http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88achangebank2.phtml Thank you, now my keyboard is covered in coffee. ;-) > H. > > I'd just returned

RE: [Beowulf] dollars-per-teraflop : any lists like the Top500?

2010-07-02 Thread Hearns, John
> -Original Message- > From: beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] > On Behalf Of David Mathog > Sent: 01 July 2010 23:54 > To: beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] dollars-per-teraflop : any lists like the > Top500? > > This thread brings to mind the p