[Beowulf] moderation - was cpu's versus gpu's - was Intel buys QLogic

2012-01-31 Thread Herbert Fruchtl
Folks, I missed part of this discussion (for obvious reasons I lost interest), but since it seems to be moving in that direction, I'll throw in my two smallest-local-currency-units. I'm a lurker (in old usenet parlance) on this list: reading, but very rarely posting. There are probably many of

Re: [Beowulf] rear door heat exchangers

2012-01-31 Thread Stu Midgley
Speak to SGI. We have about a dozen such racks, all from SGI. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Michael Di Domenico wrote: > i'm looking for, but have not found yet, a rear door heat exchanger > with fans.  the door should be able to support up to 35kw using > chilled water.  has anyone seen such

Re: [Beowulf] rear door heat exchangers

2012-01-31 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
Maybe there's an issue with the weight and or flexible tubing on a swinging door? The Hoffman products in Andrew's email, I think, aren't the kind that hang on a door, more hang on the side of a large box/cabinet (Type 4,12, 3R enclosure) or wall. They're also air/air heat exchanges or aircond

[Beowulf] rear door heat exchangers

2012-01-31 Thread Michael Di Domenico
i'm looking for, but have not found yet, a rear door heat exchanger with fans. the door should be able to support up to 35kw using chilled water. has anyone seen such an animal? most of the ones i've seen utilize a side car that sits beside the rack. unfortunately, i'm space limited and i need

Re: [Beowulf] rear door heat exchangers

2012-01-31 Thread Andrew Latham
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Michael Di Domenico wrote: > i'm looking for, but have not found yet, a rear door heat exchanger > with fans.  the door should be able to support up to 35kw using > chilled water.  has anyone seen such an animal? > > most of the ones i've seen utilize a side car th

Re: [Beowulf] cpu's versus gpu's - was Intel buys QLogic InfiniBand business

2012-01-31 Thread Joshua mora acosta
I agree with Joe. Plus I know that most of us, if not all, truly want to share knowledge, and why not, opinions as well based on personal experiences as long as "we all do the effort to be respectful with both the individual and the technology and being open /receptive to be criticized as well". T

[Beowulf] List moderation

2012-01-31 Thread C. Bergström
On 01/31/12 10:30 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: > On 01/31/2012 07:15 AM, Glen Beane wrote: >> Did this list used to be moderated? I remember when I first joined there >> would be a significant delay for my email sent to the list, while I was >> waiting for my replies to show up a whole convers

Re: [Beowulf] cpu's versus gpu's - was Intel buys QLogic InfiniBand business

2012-01-31 Thread Ellis H. Wilson III
On 01/31/2012 07:15 AM, Glen Beane wrote: > Did this list used to be moderated? I remember when I first joined there > would be a significant delay for my email sent to the list, while I was > waiting for my replies to show up a whole conversation would be unfolding > between "veteran posters"

Re: [Beowulf] cpu's versus gpu's - was Intel buys QLogic InfiniBand business

2012-01-31 Thread Glen Beane
On Jan 31, 2012, at 4:31 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:21:45PM -0800, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: >> >> >> The biggest hurdle would probably be getting volunteers, though. >> Peter >> >> You got that right... Moderating takes a deft touch and a thick skin. > > I would have n

Re: [Beowulf] cpu's versus gpu's - was Intel buys QLogic InfiniBand business

2012-01-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:21:45PM -0800, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > > > The biggest hurdle would probably be getting volunteers, though. > Peter > > You got that right... Moderating takes a deft touch and a thick skin. I would have no issues moderating Beowulf@ since that would require only ne

Re: [Beowulf] cpu's versus gpu's - was Intel buys QLogic InfiniBand business

2012-01-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 06:09:48PM -0500, Joe Landman wrote: > On 01/30/2012 06:07 PM, Peter St. John wrote: > > Instead of appointing a moderator, we could grow one with recursive Page > > Ranking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_ranking) (in math we knew > > about this type of thing a while a