Re: [Beowulf] SC13 wrapup, please post your own

2013-11-25 Thread Adam DeConinck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > 4. I went to a BoF on ROI on HPC investment. All the presentations in > the BoF frustrated me. Not because they were poorly done, but because > they tried to measure the value of a cluster by number of papers > published that used that HPC resou

Re: [Beowulf] SC13 wrapup, please post your own

2013-11-25 Thread Adam DeConinck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Out of curiosity, did anyone on-list manage to any of the tutorials, and feel like sharing what was good or bad? I'm particularly interested to hear from anyone who made it to one of, * "Practical Fault Tolerance on Today's HPC Systems" * "The Pract

Re: [Beowulf] Admin action request

2013-11-25 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Andrew Holway wrote: > Its been awfully quiet around here since Vincent Diepeveen was kicked > I was beginning to wonder if the mailman servers were down. ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Pe

Re: [Beowulf] SC13 wrapup, please post your own

2013-11-25 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Okay, here's my attempt at summarizing my SC13 experience. 1. The show was actually kind of boring this year. I think this was because there were now big new technologies or products to talk about. Also, there's usually a lot of activity at the NOAA and OLCF booths every years, and neither of t

Re: [Beowulf] Admin action request

2013-11-25 Thread Andrew Holway
Its been awfully quiet around here since Vincent Diepeveen was kicked On 25 November 2013 20:25, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > On 11/22/2013 02:41 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: >> On 11/22/13 16:15, Joe Landman wrote: >>> On 11/22/2013 02:00 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: I think "no support

Re: [Beowulf] SC13 wrapup, please post your own

2013-11-25 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Adam, Thinks for all the information. As always, all the interesting BoF's were always at the same time. I wanted to many of the BoF's you mentionedbut ended up going to "sexier" ones. My own SC13 wrapup to be coming soon. Prentice On 11/23/2013 03:44 PM, Adam DeConinck wrote: > -BEGIN PG

Re: [Beowulf] Admin action request

2013-11-25 Thread Prentice Bisbal
On 11/22/2013 02:41 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: > On 11/22/13 16:15, Joe Landman wrote: >> On 11/22/2013 02:00 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: >>> I think "no support" may be a bit overreaching, but nevertheless, I >> I couldn't find a person I spoke to about this from the list in support >> of t

Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-25 Thread Prentice Bisbal
I hope I'm not too late to this party to add my 2 cents! While I don't dispute the legal definition of COTS as stand for "commercial off the-shelf", I think most people, especially in the Linux cluster community are more familiar with COTS meaning "COMMODITY off-the-shelf." That is a subtle

Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-25 Thread Prentice Bisbal
On 11/15/2013 02:07 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: > On 11/15/2013 12:28 PM, Peter St. John wrote: >> I missed the 4-letter acronym; my grasp stops at TLA's :/ >> By SOHO you don't mean "self organizing holons" although that idea is >> germane to distributed processing. So what's a SOHO? > Just be