Re: [Beowulf] Execution time measurements - clarification

2011-05-20 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:26:31PM -0400, Mark Hahn forwarded a message: > When I run 2 identical examples of the same batch job simultaneously, > execution time of *each* job is > LOWER than for single job run ! I'd try locking these sequential jobs to a single core, you can get quite weird eff

Re: [Beowulf] Curious about ECC vs non-ECC in practice

2011-05-20 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 08:52:43AM -0700, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > As hardware gets smaller and faster and lower power, the "cost" to provide > extra computational resources to implement a strategy like this gets > smaller, relative to the ever increasing human labor cost to try and make > it perf

[Beowulf] Execution time measurements - clarification

2011-05-20 Thread Mark Hahn
From: Mikhail Kuzminsky Subject: [Beowulf] Execution time measurements - clarification Dear Mark, could you pls forward my message to beowulf@beowulf.org (because my messages as before can't be delivered to maillist) ? It's clarification of my previous question here. Mikhail --

Re: [Beowulf] Curious about ECC vs non-ECC in practice

2011-05-20 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
On 5/20/11 9:35 AM, "Douglas Eadline" wrote: >Joe > >While this is somewhat anecdotal, it may be helpful. > >Not a large-ish cluster, but as you may guess, I wondered >about this for Limulus >(http://limulus.basement-supercomputing.com) > >I wrote a script (will post it if anyone interested) >t

Re: [Beowulf] Curious about ECC vs non-ECC in practice

2011-05-20 Thread Douglas Eadline
Joe While this is somewhat anecdotal, it may be helpful. Not a large-ish cluster, but as you may guess, I wondered about this for Limulus (http://limulus.basement-supercomputing.com) I wrote a script (will post it if anyone interested) that runs memtester until you stop it or it finds a error. I

Re: [Beowulf] Curious about ECC vs non-ECC in practice

2011-05-20 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
On 5/20/11 8:35 AM, "Tony Travis" wrote: >On 20/05/11 05:35, Joe Landman wrote: >> Hi folks >> >> Does anyone run a large-ish cluster without ECC ram? Or with ECC >> turned off at the motherboard level? I am curious if there are numbers >> of these, and what issues people encounter. I ha

Re: [Beowulf] Curious about ECC vs non-ECC in practice

2011-05-20 Thread Tony Travis
On 20/05/11 05:35, Joe Landman wrote: > Hi folks > > Does anyone run a large-ish cluster without ECC ram? Or with ECC > turned off at the motherboard level? I am curious if there are numbers > of these, and what issues people encounter. I have some of my own data > from smaller collections o

Re: [Beowulf] Curious about ECC vs non-ECC in practice

2011-05-20 Thread Guy Coates
On 20/05/11 06:45, Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:35:25AM -0400, Joe Landman wrote: > >>Does anyone run a large-ish cluster without ECC ram? Or with ECC >> turned off at the motherboard level? I am curious if there are numbers >> of these, and what issues people encounter