Re: [Beowulf] XeonPhi notes.

2013-01-07 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/01/13 06:25, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > The browsers here report your homepage as having 'unresponsive > scripts' Browser issue I'd guess, none of the 3 browsers I've just tried (Firefox, Chromium, Konqueror) had any problems with it. > and

Re: [Beowulf] XeonPhi notes.

2013-01-07 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
hi James, The browsers here report your homepage as having 'unresponsive scripts' and possibly malware/spyware, so opening it is a problem. Can you fix that? On Jan 7, 2013, at 3:51 PM, James Cuff wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Vincent Diepeveen > wrote: > >> Seems intel has you

[Beowulf] Three-Mile-High Supercomputer Poses Unique Challenges

2013-01-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/three-mile-high-supercomputer-poses-unique-challenges/ Three-Mile-High Supercomputer Poses Unique Challenges by Mark Hachman | January 4, 2013 How do you install, build and operate a supercomputer at 16,000 feet? Slowly. The correlator in the ALMA Array Op

Re: [Beowulf] XeonPhi notes.

2013-01-07 Thread Joe Landman
On 1/7/13 9:51 AM, James Cuff wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >> Seems intel has you in your pocket. > Seems I have at least two pockets, quite possibly more ;-) I humbly suggest wearing cargo pants so you have more pockets, and can review more stuff ... Se

Re: [Beowulf] XeonPhi notes.

2013-01-07 Thread James Cuff
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > Seems intel has you in your pocket. Seems I have at least two pockets, quite possibly more ;-) http://blog.jcuff.net/2013/01/new-nvidia-processors.html Best, j. -- dr. james cuff, director of research computing & chief technology a

Re: [Beowulf] Configuration management tools/strategy

2013-01-07 Thread tegner
Running a rather small cluster, and just swtched from puppet to salt - mostly because it is written in python, and I'm more comfortable with that. Haven't used neither puppet nor salt much, but both satisfies my rather basic needs. /jon Tim Cutts skrev: > >On 6 Jan 2013, at 18:55, Skylar Thom

Re: [Beowulf] Configuration management tools/strategy

2013-01-07 Thread Tim Cutts
On 6 Jan 2013, at 18:55, Skylar Thompson wrote: > CFengine probably isn't a bad choice - going with something that's > well-tested and -used is helpful because it's a lot easier to get > recipes for what you need to do. We use cfengine2 and cfengine3 here; still in the middle of migrating from

Re: [Beowulf] Configuration management tools/strategy

2013-01-07 Thread Gregory Matthews
On 06/01/13 13:38, Walid wrote: > At work we are starting to evaluate Configuration management to be used > to manage several diverse hpc clusters, and their diverse node types. I > wanted to see what are other admins, and HPC users experience like, the > ones that we will start evaluating are CFEn