[Beowulf] HPC with CUDA

2014-06-03 Thread Raphael Verdugo P.
Hi, I need install 5 GPUs(Geforce GTX 780s) in a server and 1 Tesla Keppler K40 in other. ¿ Do they have any recommendation for server HP or Dell? processor? , RAM? I review a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 Server (1) . Do they any observation? We will use it with Nvidia CUDA for HPC... We have t

Re: [Beowulf] Brian Guarraci (engineer at Twitter) is building a Parallella cluster in his spare time

2014-06-03 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
"The bus bars are then mounted to the switch using 3M industrial Velcro, which is easy to work with, very strong and serves to insulate the bus bars from the metal switch case." Yes.. not everything has to be nuts and bolts.. Sticky tape and Velcro. Jim Lux -Original Message- From: Be

Re: [Beowulf] Interesting POV about Hadoop

2014-06-03 Thread Joe Landman
On 06/03/2014 11:32 AM, Lockwood, Glenn wrote: What the article seems to slide past is that not all data fits neatly into column-oriented or graph databases. Hadoop is all about handling unstructured data, so its real utility lies in ETL, not the analytics part. It's a complementary capability

Re: [Beowulf] Interesting POV about Hadoop

2014-06-03 Thread Lockwood, Glenn
With all due respect to Stonebraker, I found the whole article very silly. It should be no surprise that the "father of Postgres" would think MapReduce is not useful for anything because "Teradata, IBM, Greenplum, HP Vertica, and Amazon Redshift" do it better... he's saying his position is that

[Beowulf] Brian Guarraci (engineer at Twitter) is building a Parallella cluster in his spare time

2014-06-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.parallella.org/2014/06/03/my-name-is-brian-and-i-build-supercomputers-in-my-spare-time/ Brian Guarraci is a software engineer at Twitter and in his spare time he’s building a Parallella cluster with a design that was inspired by two of the most iconic supercomputers ever made. When

[Beowulf] Interesting POV about Hadoop

2014-06-03 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Interesting opinion on Hadoop: “The Google guys have to be just laughing in their beer right now because they invented MapReduce a decade ago to serve the data storage needs of the Google crawl of the Internet… and moved all of that to Big Table,” Stonebraker says. “Why did they do that? Becau