Re: [Beowulf] curiosity killed the cat

2016-06-01 Thread Stu Midgley
just need to workout how to build large fat-trees with ethernet. With 100G we get by with mlag for the spines (upto 640 hosts on 10g). with our 40G/10G network, we are using ospf/mpls/vpls to give a static fat-tree... 30k lines of config applied to ~20 switches. Nasty. On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 1

Re: [Beowulf] curiosity killed the cat

2016-06-01 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 07:48:10AM +0800, Stu Midgley wrote: > That's it. As I said, I haven't used it since the early 00's. > > With 100Gb becoming common it might be time for these sort of MPI's to come > back. You could do better than these old interfaces, too... modern ethernet chips have mu

Re: [Beowulf] curiosity killed the cat

2016-06-01 Thread Stu Midgley
That's it. As I said, I haven't used it since the early 00's. With 100Gb becoming common it might be time for these sort of MPI's to come back. On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 07:41:36AM +0800, Stu Midgley wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:55

Re: [Beowulf] curiosity killed the cat

2016-06-01 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 02/06/16 05:25, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > You mean GAMMA (Genoa Active Message MAchine): GAMMA's last update was 2009, according to their website. Brice pulled the plug on Open-MX in December 2015. :-( -- Christopher SamuelSenior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Scienc

Re: [Beowulf] curiosity killed the cat

2016-06-01 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 03:25:22PM -0400, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > You mean GAMMA (Genoa Active Message MAchine): > > http://www.disi.unige.it/project/gamma/ > http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7253/ > http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2006-February/014846.html I wonder how their flow co

Re: [Beowulf] curiosity killed the cat

2016-06-01 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 07:41:36AM +0800, Stu Midgley wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:55 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > > > Do you mean Open-MX (not to be confused with that *other* OpenMX that's an > > R project.)? > > > > http://open-mx.gforge.inria.fr/ > no, the one I used about 15 years ago