Re: [Beowulf] how cluster's storage can be flexible/expandable?

2012-11-08 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/11/12 14:47, Duke Nguyen wrote: > I don't understand how the cluster's storage can be expandable on > the fly (hot swap?) without affecting current data and usage. You use an appliance, filesystem, or intermediate layer like lVM that allows you

[Beowulf] how cluster's storage can be flexible/expandable?

2012-11-08 Thread Duke Nguyen
Hi all, I don't understand how the cluster's storage can be expandable on the fly (hot swap?) without affecting current data and usage. We have a file server with 32 swapable trays, and we can configure the disks with any RAID we want. My understand is that for this storage to be available on

Re: [Beowulf] Maker2 genomic software license experience?

2012-11-08 Thread James Lowey
Bingo, the code changes so fast that parallelism is best left to the scheduler, for now... James Lowey Director, NCS TGen On Nov 8, 2012, at 6:52 AM, Skylar Thompson wrote: > On 11/08/12 02:35, Tim Cutts wrote: >> On 8 Nov 2012, at 10:10, Andrew Holway wrote: >> >> >>> It's all a bit acad

Re: [Beowulf] Maker2 genomic software license experience?

2012-11-08 Thread Skylar Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/2012 06:10 AM, Tim Cutts wrote: > > On 8 Nov 2012, at 13:52, Skylar Thompson > wrote: > >> I guess if your development time is sufficiently shorter than >> the equivalent compiled code, it could make sense. > > This is true, and a lot of w

Re: [Beowulf] Maker2 genomic software license experience?

2012-11-08 Thread Skylar Thompson
On 11/08/12 02:35, Tim Cutts wrote: > On 8 Nov 2012, at 10:10, Andrew Holway wrote: > > >> It's all a bit academic now (ahem) as the MPI component is a Perl >> program, and Perl isn't supported on BlueGene/Q. :-( >> >> huh? perl mpi? >> >> Interpreted language? High performance message passing

Re: [Beowulf] Maker2 genomic software license experience?

2012-11-08 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/11/12 21:35, Tim Cutts wrote: > Welcome to the wonderful world of bioinformatics and genomics > "high performance" computing. Didn't you know that perl, python, > ruby and java are all much faster than C and FORTRAN? Apparently > it's a well-

Re: [Beowulf] Any beowulfers attending SC12?

2012-11-08 Thread Lawrence Stewart
I'll be there, with either my Serissa or Quanta Research Cambridge hats on. -Larry PS Try having Siri ask Shallow Thought for you. ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or

Re: [Beowulf] Maker2 genomic software license experience?

2012-11-08 Thread Tim Cutts
On 8 Nov 2012, at 13:52, Skylar Thompson wrote: > I guess if your development time is sufficiently shorter than the > equivalent compiled code, it could make sense. This is true, and a lot of what these guys are writing is pipeline glue joining other bits of software together, for which script

Re: [Beowulf] Maker2 genomic software license experience?

2012-11-08 Thread Tim Cutts
On 8 Nov 2012, at 10:10, Andrew Holway wrote: > > It's all a bit academic now (ahem) as the MPI component is a Perl > program, and Perl isn't supported on BlueGene/Q. :-( > > huh? perl mpi? > > Interpreted language? High performance message passing interface? > > confused. Welcome to the wo

Re: [Beowulf] Maker2 genomic software license experience?

2012-11-08 Thread Andrew Holway
> It's all a bit academic now (ahem) as the MPI component is a Perl > program, and Perl isn't supported on BlueGene/Q. :-( huh? perl mpi? Interpreted language? High performance message passing interface? confused. ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beo