Re: [Beowulf] Update on dealing with Spectre and Meltdown

2018-03-16 Thread Chris Samuel
On Saturday, 17 March 2018 6:16:30 AM AEDT Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Am I correct that this is Haswell and newer that is affected? Meltdown is affects Intel, IBM and ARM CPUs at least and Spectre (IIRC) potentially affects any CPU with speculative execution. All the best, Chris -- Chris Samue

Re: [Beowulf] Update on dealing with Spectre and Meltdown

2018-03-16 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Thanks again, Gavin. We did the same thing at our site this week (mitigated on login nodes, disabled mitigation on compute nodes), but I intend to go back and test to see if there’s any performance penalty without the kernel arguments. Am I correct that this is Haswell and newer that is affected

Re: [Beowulf] Update on dealing with Spectre and Meltdown

2018-03-16 Thread James Cuff
> Prentice Bisbal wrote: > >> Beowulfers, >> >> Have any of you updated the kernels on your clusters to fix the >> Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities? I was following this issue >> closely for the first couple of weeks. There seemed to be a lack of >> consensus on how much these fixed would impa

Re: [Beowulf] Openfoam advice

2018-03-16 Thread Faraz Hussain
I was hoping there was some representative CFD model that everyone could use to evaluate performance. My background is in FEA so am familiar with matrix decomposition and iterative solvers. I would guess OpenFOAM implements some kind of iterative solver? So any large mesh would suit to test