Re: [Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

2014-07-01 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
How would the same arguments apply if you are just dealing with dns servers web servers databases etc. > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Jon, > > On 02/07/14 04:38, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > >> I think im coming from a different aspects not from academia but >> more from an

Re: [Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

2014-07-01 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jon, On 02/07/14 04:38, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > I think im coming from a different aspects not from academia but > more from an enterprise aspect in terms of clustering. Basically a > data center clustered into one big one so to speak I'm not

Re: [Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

2014-07-01 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I think im coming from a different aspects not from academia but more from an enterprise aspect in terms of clustering.  Basically a data center clustered into one big one so to speak  Sent from Samsung Mobile Original message From: Prentice Bisbal Date: 01/07/2014 18:51

Re: [Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

2014-07-01 Thread Prentice Bisbal
On 07/01/2014 12:35 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: I think my question though is this. can one see negative impacts if the compiler gets upgraded regardless of if its gcc or intel. If you're talking about the distro-provided compiler, no. They are usually tested well by the distro maintainer, and

Re: [Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

2014-07-01 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I think my question though is this. can one see negative impacts if the compiler gets upgraded regardless of if its gcc or intel. > > On 07/01/2014 12:17 AM, Matt Wallis wrote: >> On 01/07/14 13:45, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: >>> This question probably sounds like a stupid one, but what difference >

Re: [Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

2014-07-01 Thread Prentice Bisbal
On 07/01/2014 12:17 AM, Matt Wallis wrote: On 01/07/14 13:45, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: This question probably sounds like a stupid one, but what difference in an HPC environment and to parallel written code does compiler version make? Depends on the day of the week, the processor, the code,

Re: [Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

2014-07-01 Thread Matt Wallis
On 1 Jul 2014, at 5:11 pm, Christopher Samuel wrote: > There were releases in 2011 and 2012 and the list is still active. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/modules/files/Modules/ > > The 3.2.10 release in 2012 fixed the infamous segfault bug that could > result in corrupted environment varia

Re: [Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

2014-07-01 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya Matt, On 01/07/14 17:03, Matt Wallis wrote: > I'm thinking of setting up a build environment with it because > Environment Modules seems to have been slow to update to newer > versions of TCL, and they don't appear to be actively maintained. > L

Re: [Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

2014-07-01 Thread Matt Wallis
On 1 Jul 2014, at 4:36 pm, Olli-Pekka Lehto wrote: > On a sidenote, EasyBuild was mentioned here earlier and it seems that they > have IMO right idea of simplifying installs of the type of environment that > Chris > was describing and many (including us) seem to hold as best practice. Just >

Re: [Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

2014-07-01 Thread Matt Wallis
On 01/07/14 13:45, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: This question probably sounds like a stupid one, but what difference in an HPC environment and to parallel written code does compiler version make? Depends on the day of the week, the processor, the code, and your cluster really. Sometimes code fro