Re: [Beowulf] Broadcast - not for HPC - or is it?

2010-10-08 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
PTP (IEEE 1588) needs custom interface hardware, though. The Ethernet interface has added hardware to time stamp when the packet is sent/received, and that's what the software uses to do the precision measurements. I suppose one could (try to) use PTP over a wireless link. That would take an

Re: [Beowulf] Broadcast - not for HPC - or is it?

2010-10-08 Thread David N. Lombard
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 05:40:28AM -0700, Matt Hurd wrote: > > Know some guys here in Australia that are doing extremely accurate > timing with wireless, not for timing's sake but to measure movement in > dam walls and other infrastructure. Kind of like a localised GPS. > They have some very neat

Re: [Beowulf] Broadcast - not for HPC - or is it?

2010-10-08 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
Wireless for broadcast is generically a good idea (heck, I make my living doing such stuff) but tricky.. Latency is a challenge if you want off-the-shelf hardware. The problem is that readily available wireless protocols (e.g. 802.11, 802.14, 802.16) are packet oriented, and more to the point,

Re: [Beowulf] Broadcast - not for HPC - or is it?

2010-10-08 Thread Matt Hurd
>> > So if you want another offbeat idea on how to do broadcast on a large > cluster  - what about wireless ? > (although again, you can't get realistically reliable transport with > checking acks ) > > Daniel > Nice idea. Perhaps not so offbeat. Though bandwidth and radio don't go too well toget

Re: [Beowulf] problem with mpdboot

2010-10-08 Thread Reuti
Hi, Am 04.10.2010 um 20:53 schrieb Sarah souami: > Good morning, I have a problem to run mpd in more than one site, mpd can be > run independently in each site, and I can establish a ssh connection between > sites without a password, I disabled the Firewal but, in principle it should work, but

Re: [Beowulf] Broadcast - not for HPC - or is it?

2010-10-08 Thread Daniel Kidger
It's been an interesting thread, but I think I've come to the conclusion that, except for a few financial market uses, such a device is not really useful for bewoulf or HPC as the MISD model doesn't seem to be of much practical use unless you can get something cute for virtually free to suit occ