Re: [Beowulf] Interesting

2010-10-27 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Christopher Samuel wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/mar/03/research.elearning I've already lived through whole generations of this process from as far back as 1979. I have chunks of code (mostly very old fortran) that I carefully preserved from punched cards throu

Re: [Beowulf] Interesting

2010-10-27 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/10/10 04:03, Sarma Tangirala wrote: > What I'd like to know is, is it possible to have a our > history captured in its entirety so that none of the > future generations have to run around (like Hari Seldon) > because information from wy back

Re: [Beowulf] Interesting

2010-10-27 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Sarma Tangirala wrote: The recent digests that I am getting are quite interesting (bad google) and I have a question. What I'd like to know is, is it possible to have a our history captured in its entirety so that none of the future generations have to run around (like Ha

Re: [Beowulf] how Google warps your brain

2010-10-27 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Jack Carrozzo wrote: To add my $0.02 to Bills points, it becomes more difficult also when dealing with multiple groups to decide on the type of setup and whatnot.  Where I went to school, the Math dept had a huge shared-memory SGI setup whilst the Physics department had a st

RE: [Beowulf] how Google warps your brain

2010-10-27 Thread William Harman
Rgb makes many good points (and should change his profession to that of a futurist (compliment intended)) but one thing I believe needs to be put in place, for the omnipresence of this type of technological world - in a word - power. Whatever device you use and wherever you use it, you need a sour

[Beowulf] Interesting

2010-10-27 Thread Sarma Tangirala
The recent digests that I am getting are quite interesting (bad google) and I have a question. What I'd like to know is, is it possible to have a our history captured in its entirety so that none of the future generations have to run around (like Hari Seldon) because information from wy bac

[Beowulf] [hpc-announce] International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments Call for Papers (HIPS'11, 1st CFP)

2010-10-27 Thread Torsten Hoefler
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Re: [Beowulf] Anybody using Redhat HPC Solution in their Beowulf

2010-10-27 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Richard Chang wrote: > Hello List, > My University is going for a new HPC System. I was using Rocks + CentOS until > now but someone suggested to use Redhat HPC Solution with the new system. > > I am not able to find good documentation to setup and use Redhat HPC.

Re: [Beowulf] 48-port 10gig switches?

2010-10-27 Thread Bruce Allen
Hi Greg, We have some switches made by Fortinet (model FS500) which we like. They were previously designed and marketed by Woven Systems, which was then acquired by Fortinet. Cheers, Bruce On Sep 2, 2010, at 3:17 AM, Greg Lindahl wrote: > I'm in the market for 48-port 10gig switches (pr

Re: [Beowulf] Anybody using Redhat HPC Solution in their Beowulf

2010-10-27 Thread Douglas J. Trainor
There is also the situation when you ask for a quote from sales and you never get a quote back! (I asked one vendor for a quote for two Beowulfs, one owned by a company and one owned by a nonprofit...) douglas On Oct 22, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Richard Chang wrote: > On 10/22/2010 6:21 P

Re: [Beowulf] Anybody using Redhat HPC Solution in their Beowulf

2010-10-27 Thread Vallard Benincosa
You can buy paid support for ROCKS from clustercorp. In addition you can buy paid support for xCAT (with RedHat) through Sumavi. And of course, which ever vendor you decide to buy hardware from will have a supported offering as well. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Richard Chang wrote: > On 10

Re: [Beowulf] Anybody using Redhat HPC Solution in their Beowulf

2010-10-27 Thread Daniel Challen
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 07:54 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > i have seen in repositories of other distros the red hat cluster > suite. im not sure if that is the same thing as you mentioned below. Red Hat Cluster Suite (RHCS) is a high availability cluster solution built upon OpenAIS plus other R

Re: [Beowulf] Looking for references for parallelization and optimization

2010-10-27 Thread Dmitri Chubarov
Dear Micha, we are working on a course on the subject for Novosibirsk University. There are several widely used books that we use as reference material for the optimization part of the course. In particular, * Stefan Goedecker, Adolfy Hoisie, "Performance optimization of numerically intensive cod

Re: [Beowulf] how Google warps your brain

2010-10-27 Thread Jack Carrozzo
To add my $0.02 to Bills points, it becomes more difficult also when dealing with multiple groups to decide on the type of setup and whatnot. Where I went to school, the Math dept had a huge shared-memory SGI setup whilst the Physics department had a standard Beowulf cluster. Both groups used thei

Re: [Beowulf] how Google warps your brain

2010-10-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 10/21/10 9:37 AM, Robert G. Brown wrote: Of course (he chimes in from the bleachers where he is quietly sitting and wishing he were drinking a beer while watching students -- also wishing they were drinking a beer -- take a physics exam:-) this simply puts the world back where it was so long a