Re: [Beowulf] Doing i/o at a small cluster

2012-08-17 Thread Andrew Holway
How about something like putting all your disks in one basket and getting a ZFS / NFSoRDMA solution such as nexenta. They have a nice open source distribution. 2012/8/17 Vincent Diepeveen : > The idea someone brought me on by means of a private email is > to use a distributed file system and spli

Re: [Beowulf] Doing i/o at a small cluster

2012-08-17 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
The homepage looks very commercial and they have a free trial on it. You refer to the free trial? I'll leave it at that. Putting everything in 1 basket means extra machine that burns juice of course. That's the first disadvantage. Not the most serious one of course as i could equip one of the n

Re: [Beowulf] Doing i/o at a small cluster

2012-08-17 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
The idea someone brought me on by means of a private email is to use a distributed file system and split each drive in 2 partitions. the outside which is fastest for local storage and the inside for a global distributed partition for long term storage of endresults and automatically compressing

Re: [Beowulf] Doing i/o at a small cluster

2012-08-17 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
On Aug 17, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: > On 08/17/12 08:03, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> hi, >> >> Which free or very cheap distributed file system choices do i have >> for a 8 node cluster that has QDR infiniband (mellanox)? >> Each node could have a few harddrives. Up to 8 or so

[Beowulf] Prentice has a new job.

2012-08-17 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Beowulfers, Now that the Beowulf mailing list appears to be functional again, I wanted to announce a recent job change. At the end of June I left the Institute for Advanced Study to become the Manager of IT for the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (aka RDI2). This is a new HPC institute

Re: [Beowulf] Doing i/o at a small cluster

2012-08-17 Thread Ellis H. Wilson III
On 08/17/12 08:03, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > hi, > > Which free or very cheap distributed file system choices do i have > for a 8 node cluster that has QDR infiniband (mellanox)? > Each node could have a few harddrives. Up to 8 or so SATA2. Could > also use some raid cards. Lots of choices, but a

Re: [Beowulf] Moderation of the Beowulf Mailing List

2012-08-17 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Ya I have basically dropped all the ones that are caught. They are all spam just dropped another big bunch again just now. Arend I am quite suprised Spamassassin hasnt been setup and integrated with mailman. I am not sure if that is possible, but I can find out and let you know later on today,

Re: [Beowulf] Moderation of the Beowulf Mailing List

2012-08-17 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
I can tell you want we do on another list where I'm a moderator.. If it's an "autogenerated spam" just dump it silently automatically and unsubscribe (these are easy.. They have email addresses like asd...@bogusdomain.com) I can find out what we use for our filters. If it's spam that's "out o

[Beowulf] Doing i/o at a small cluster

2012-08-17 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
hi, Which free or very cheap distributed file system choices do i have for a 8 node cluster that has QDR infiniband (mellanox)? Each node could have a few harddrives. Up to 8 or so SATA2. Could also use some raid cards. And i'm investigating what i need. I'm investigating to generate the 7 m

Re: [Beowulf] Moderation of the Beowulf Mailing List

2012-08-17 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I am looking at the moderation tasks and it seems like there are already a number of spam messages waiting there. Question I have is do i reject the messages and discard them as well as add the sender to either the reject or discard list? How are we going to proceed with these emails? On 17/0