Re: [Beowulf] HP Enterprise to buy SGI

2016-08-11 Thread Joe Landman
On 08/11/2016 07:22 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote: So SGI is getting bought (yet again), this time by HP Enterprise. http://investors.sgi.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=984160 Go off to class for a few hours and stuff happens ... For their in memory analytics machines. Go figure. -- Jose

Re: [Beowulf] HP Enterprise to buy SGI

2016-08-11 Thread Stu Midgley
I think I heard a rumour some months ago that HP was considering using SGI gear for their next non-stop type machines... so it isn't that much of a surprise. The network that Cray developed about 20years ago still has life :) On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Christopher Samuel wrote: > On 12/08

Re: [Beowulf] HP Enterprise to buy SGI

2016-08-11 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 12/08/16 09:39, Jeffrey Layton wrote: > Any opinions or observations Chris? The first thing that came to mind was (to quote a certain bowl of petunias created by Douglas Adams): "Oh no, not again" But that's just an emotional reaction, not substantive. I would hope that they don't stuff up

Re: [Beowulf] HP Enterprise to buy SGI

2016-08-11 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Any opinions or observations Chris? On Aug 11, 2016 7:23 PM, "Christopher Samuel" wrote: > So SGI is getting bought (yet again), this time by HP Enterprise. > > http://investors.sgi.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=984160 > > -- > Christopher SamuelSenior Systems Administrator > VLSCI -

Re: [Beowulf] HP Enterprise to buy SGI

2016-08-11 Thread Jeff Johnson
Typical merger math. 1 + 1 = .8 On Thursday, August 11, 2016, Christopher Samuel wrote: > So SGI is getting bought (yet again), this time by HP Enterprise. > > http://investors.sgi.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=984160 > > -- > Christopher SamuelSenior Systems Administrator > VLSCI -

[Beowulf] HP Enterprise to buy SGI

2016-08-11 Thread Christopher Samuel
So SGI is getting bought (yet again), this time by HP Enterprise. http://investors.sgi.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=984160 -- Christopher SamuelSenior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545

Re: [Beowulf] Would anyone be willing to lend me a bit of support?

2016-08-11 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 11/08/16 14:23, Darren Wise wrote: > But none the less it's all installed and configured to what I assume is > correct, ive even gone as far to disable ufw, even the firewall on the > nodes and the router here at home but still I cannot get mpd? Mpich to I > assume start handing out even the ex

Re: [Beowulf] Would anyone be willing to lend me a bit of support?

2016-08-11 Thread John Hearns
Darren I will be happy to give you some help. Drop me an email please. Would be interesting to learn what you intend to use the cluster for too! On 11 August 2016 at 05:23, Darren Wise wrote: > Heya folks, > > This is my first post to the group, I was wondering if anyone could lend > me a hand.