[Beowulf] Underwater Cable fun from about 1994

2012-09-06 Thread Tom Knowles
Some of the newer list members might be interested in reading http://www.wired.com/wired/archive//4.12/ffglass_pr.html >From around 1994 ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode

Re: [Beowulf] Cable link

2012-09-06 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
On Sep 6, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > > On 09/05/2012 08:42 PM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> http://www.emeraldnetworks.com/system-map/ >> >> Seems Chicago - London gets signal a tad sooner than Reykjavik does, >> but could be same time roughly as well. >> >> This cable isn't yet th

Re: [Beowulf] propagation velocity in cables

2012-09-06 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
Interesting is that some year and some ago, some tradeworx guys downplayed the importance of speed in chats to me when i said speed is everything. Seems they got convinced. In a congressional hearing where also tradeworx was present, a professor there proposed a penalty in time after a trade, t

Re: [Beowulf] burn-in bootable cd

2012-09-06 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 09/07/2012 06:08 AM, Greg Lindahl wrote: > There used to be a bootable CD which combined a kernel with extra EDAC > stuff a user-land which ran HPL Linpack to exercise all the > cores/dimms. We can't find a modern version of it, does anyone kow of > one? I think what you're thinking of is Adva

Re: [Beowulf] burn-in bootable cd

2012-09-06 Thread Brendan Moloney
Getting EDAC support for (even relatively) new chipsets requires a pretty recent kernel. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Joe Landman wrote: > On 09/06/2012 04:08 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > There used to be a bootable CD which combined a kernel with extra EDAC > > stuff a user-land which ran HP

Re: [Beowulf] burn-in bootable cd

2012-09-06 Thread Joe Landman
On 09/06/2012 04:08 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: > There used to be a bootable CD which combined a kernel with extra EDAC > stuff a user-land which ran HPL Linpack to exercise all the > cores/dimms. We can't find a modern version of it, does anyone kow of > one? > We've been using systemrescue CD for m

[Beowulf] burn-in bootable cd

2012-09-06 Thread Greg Lindahl
There used to be a bootable CD which combined a kernel with extra EDAC stuff a user-land which ran HPL Linpack to exercise all the cores/dimms. We can't find a modern version of it, does anyone kow of one? -- greg ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beow

Re: [Beowulf] propagation velocity in cables

2012-09-06 Thread James Cownie
On 6 Sep 2012, at 12:16, Hearns, John wrote: > > Yes, there are laser comm systems, but generally used only for short > distances (<10km) like between two buildings. Advantage is that you don't > need much power, it's really wide bandwidth (Gbps is no problem) and it's > difficult to snoop on

Re: [Beowulf] Cable link

2012-09-06 Thread Prentice Bisbal
On 09/05/2012 08:42 PM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > http://www.emeraldnetworks.com/system-map/ > > Seems Chicago - London gets signal a tad sooner than Reykjavik does, > but could be same time roughly as well. > > This cable isn't yet there though. > > They claim to be low latency. Fiber though. S

Re: [Beowulf] propagation velocity in cables

2012-09-06 Thread Prentice Bisbal
On 09/05/2012 07:43 PM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > The interesting question is that big satellite disk on the roof as well. > Microwave is simply civil allowed frequency i was told. Around > 2800Mhz or so? > How fast is such communication? > > Using a powerful laser would it somehow be possible to

Re: [Beowulf] propagation velocity in cables

2012-09-06 Thread Hearns, John
Yes, there are laser comm systems, but generally used only for short distances (<10km) like between two buildings. Advantage is that you don't need much power, it's really wide bandwidth (Gbps is no problem) and it's difficult to snoop on (beams are very narrow with minimal spillover). OTOH, y

[Beowulf] Xeon Phi

2012-09-06 Thread Hearns, John
I rather thought Knights corner was a good name. Seems it has been renamed Xeon Phi. Oh well http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/05/intel_xeon_phi_coprocessor/ John Hearns | CFD Hardware Specialist | McLaren Racing Limited McLaren Technology Centre, Chertsey Road, Woking, Surrey GU21 4YH,

[Beowulf] Pumps trump fans - NERL

2012-09-06 Thread Hearns, John
Following our discussions about oil cooling and efficient data centres, here's a good article on the new facility For the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (*) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/05/nerl_hp_intel_hybrid_water_cooled_supercomputer/ NERL looked at using mineral oil and o