Re: [Beowulf] [ADMINISTRIVIA] After email headers for a spam that came through to the list

2013-04-02 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/13 14:24, Christopher Samuel wrote: > Does anyone out there have the email headers (just the headers) for > it that they could send me please? I've got 3 copies now, thanks so much to Geoffrey, Brian and Jonathan! All the best, Chris - --

[Beowulf] [ADMINISTRIVIA] After email headers for a spam that came through to the list

2013-04-02 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 /* Reply-To: set back to just myself, please honour it */ Hi folks, The Uni's spam filters blocked a message that was sent through to the Beowulf list from an address that appears to have never been subscribed, which I find highly suspicious. Unfort

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner shutdown

2013-04-02 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/13 01:42, lukshun...@gmail.com wrote: > News on April 1st ... Announced by Paul Hennings on Twitter on March 30th (here in AU at least, probably the 29th in the US): https://twitter.com/paul_henning/status/317744422471233536 > Is it really

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner shutdown

2013-04-02 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/13 07:52, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > At some level, it's just "recompile for the new CPU" because they > have generic architectures As long as the build system for the code isn't too Moebius to allow it to build - yes R, I'm staring at you.. t

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner shutdown

2013-04-02 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/13 02:10, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Any other ideas, or does anyone know the real reason driving this? > I'm sure HPCWire or some other news source will provide a more > detailed explanation soon. The reason according to Paul Henning (who was

[Beowulf] [hpc-announce] Invitation to submit papers to IJCSE

2013-04-02 Thread Kuan-Ching Li
[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. If you'd like to opt out of these announcements, information on how to unsubscribe is available at the bottom of this email.] Apologies if received more than once Dear colleagues and friends, International Journal of Computational Sci

[Beowulf] [hpc-announce] [Deadline Extended] CFP - EuroMPI Workshop: PBio 2013 (proceedings published by ACM DL) + Special Issue in Journal PARCO (IF: 1.311, Q1)

2013-04-02 Thread Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez
[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. If you'd like to opt out of these announcements, information on how to unsubscribe is available at the bottom of this email.] Call for Papers --- EuroMPI Workshop: International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics (proceedings published b

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner shutdown

2013-04-02 Thread Bret Stouder
A great example of why Xeon or Opteron and now PHI and Kepler make a whole lot more sense than Blue Gene or Origin. :) Commodity off the shelf hardware and software solutions continue to make the world go round... -Original Message- From: beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org [ma

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner shutdown

2013-04-02 Thread lukshuntim
On Monday, April 01, 2013 06:45 PM, John Hearns wrote: > I now we have all seen this through different sources. > However interesting as this is a main stream news item, and it is pretty > balanced. > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21993132 News on April 1st ... Is it really going to be j

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner shutdown

2013-04-02 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
Commodities don't last forever. There's nobody building Z80A based clusters that I'm aware of. Although they DO still make and sell millions of processors using the Z80 and 8051 instruction sets, there's not much activity in the 8080 or 4004 ballpark these days. I think it's more that architec

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner shutdown

2013-04-02 Thread Hearns, John
It might also be an issue of problem size that you can grind on. The top500 is about a particular metric. Processor speeds, per se, haven't been going up as fast as say disk drive size/speed, or solid state drives, or interconnects, which have gotten more sophisticated. > And, no, it's being

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner shutdown

2013-04-02 Thread Douglas Eadline
--snip-- > I suspect it's a combination of factors.. power consumption is one, age > is another. At a certain point, you start having maintenance issues > (Prentice's #5 (and maybe the half dozen people who really understand how > box A works are now working on box B, Prentice's #3, below), and