Re: [Beowulf] cloudy HPC?

2014-02-10 Thread Rayson Ho
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote: > Glenn Lockwood has a nice in-depth post reporting results (which he > presented at SC'13, though I missed his talk) about "High-Performance > Virtualization: SR-IOV and InfiniBand" which sounds like it might have > the sort of hard number

Re: [Beowulf] cloudy HPC?

2014-02-10 Thread Peter Clapham
On 10/02/14 12:09, John Hearns wrote: I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er jobs and queues, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden CPUs; Beside the API, beneath the stacks, Fluttering and dancing in the racks. Now framed to be mounted on back of door in our DC Pete

Re: [Beowulf] cloudy HPC?

2014-02-10 Thread John Hearns
I realise we can all Google, but http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/baremetal.html "The use case for this driver is for single tenant clouds such as a high-performance computing cluster" Aha. So we should now be talking about 'Single tenant clouds' for HPC. But I think a better name wou

Re: [Beowulf] cloudy HPC?

2014-02-10 Thread John Hearns
Re. Bare metal, Openstack has facilities fir booting on bare metal. I recently heard a great talk on this by an HP guy at the Openstack London meetup. This is a very very good discussion. It really deserves something like a virtual round table or seminar meeting. Some very good points are being ma