Re: [Beowulf] User notification of new software on the cluster

2016-10-06 Thread Brian Oborn
I have to give a shout-out to Rocket.Chat as the platform that my dev group eventually settled on for messaging. We were put off by the cost of Slack and fed up with XMPP, but Rocket.Chat has been working great for us as a free alternative. We're even looking to use it for our internal videoconfere

Re: [Beowulf] User notification of new software on the cluster

2016-10-06 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 29/09/16 21:03, John Hanks wrote: > Acknowledging that this is an area where personal preference and > existing culture play a very big role in what works for any given > group/environment, I'll attempt an answer noting how this works for us. > Warning: I'm prone to ranting... Thanks so much f

Re: [Beowulf] more automatic building

2016-10-06 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 06/10/16 20:46, Remy Dernat wrote: > The main idea is to have a stable OS on the hardware that you do not > need to (re-)install anymore but just some containers that you can move > or resize to fit your needs. Have you looked at Shifter for an additional string to your bow? Let's you convert

[Beowulf] Epiphany-V announcement

2016-10-06 Thread Douglas Eadline
In case you missed it, this has been all over the interwebs: https://www.parallella.org/2016/10/05/epiphany-v-a-1024-core-64-bit-risc-processor/ Paper with details: https://www.parallella.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/e5_1024core_soc.pdf Props to Andreas Olofsson and the Adapteva team. Th

Re: [Beowulf] more automatic building

2016-10-06 Thread Remy Dernat
Hi, In the same vein, Benoit (cc of this mail) created an automatic way to install a whole cluster based on centos/salt/slurm... Take a look here : https://github.com/oxedions/banquise On my side, I play with LXD to automate all this stuff (but I thought about doing it with singularity too).

Re: [Beowulf] more automatic building

2016-10-06 Thread Bill Broadley
On 10/02/2016 06:11 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote: > On 30/09/16 23:43, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote: > >> Are there, by your opinions, some clear OpenHPC minuses ? > > Last I heard their Open-MPI builds don't include Slurm support for > perceived licensing issues (odd to me, but that's lawyers for you),