Re: [Beowulf] Why We Need a Supercomputer on the Moon

2012-10-02 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
Hmmm.. On 10/2/12 8:56 AM, "Eugen Leitl" wrote: > >http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/supercomputer-moon/ > >Why We Need a Supercomputer on the Moon > >By Robert McMillanEmail Author 10.02.12 6:30 AM > >A Lunar supercomputer could ease our deep-space networking bottleneck >Image: >Sim

Re: [Beowulf] Why We Need a Supercomputer on the Moon

2012-10-02 Thread Hearns, John
Should we build a supercomputer on the moon? Good God. Its a hard enough life as a field service engineer as it is. And keeping to that Next Business Day commitment in the maintenance contract is going to be a bitch. The contents of this email are confidential and for the exclusive use of the

[Beowulf] Why We Need a Supercomputer on the Moon

2012-10-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/supercomputer-moon/ Why We Need a Supercomputer on the Moon By Robert McMillanEmail Author 10.02.12 6:30 AM A Lunar supercomputer could ease our deep-space networking bottleneck Image: Simon Lutrin/Wired Should we build a supercomputer on the moon?

Re: [Beowulf] cluster building advice?

2012-10-02 Thread Jonathan Barber
On 2 October 2012 09:36, Hearns, John wrote: > Interesting. > >> Went to ftp.redhat.com and found: >> >> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/RHDevToolset/SRPMS/ >> >> Downloaded and installed the SRPMS, installed the dependencies via >> yum, and built the RPMS. > > I would

Re: [Beowulf] cluster building advice?

2012-10-02 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/09/12 10:24, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > Googled RHEL gcc 4.7 and discovered that Red Hat has something > called Red Hat Developer Toolset which is gcc 4.7 for RHEL 5 and > 6. What we do is build GCC, LLVM, etc, from source and install as: /usr/

Re: [Beowulf] Checkpointing using flash

2012-10-02 Thread Hearns, John
Regarding fault tolerance, this sounds interesting. I haven't had a chance to do more than glimpse at the web page though (9:30 UK time and I need my coffee) Lecture Series "A Perspective on Exploiting Heterogeneous Fault-Tolerant Parallelism for HPC clusters and Supercomputers" at the Uni

Re: [Beowulf] cluster building advice?

2012-10-02 Thread Hearns, John
Interesting. > Went to ftp.redhat.com and found: > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/RHDevToolset/SRPMS/ > > Downloaded and installed the SRPMS, installed the dependencies via > yum, and built the RPMS. I would like to recommend the "mock" [1] tool for building SRPMs

Re: [Beowulf] cluster building advice?

2012-10-02 Thread Jonathan Barber
On 27 September 2012 01:24, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:54:01 +0200, you wrote: [snip] >> >>Even trying to compile GCC 4.7.0 both 32 and 64 bits in SL was a >>problem though it had been >>released for months. > > Not difficult. > > Googled RHEL gcc 4.7 and discovered that Re