Re: [Beowulf] FPGA storage accelerator

2018-06-06 Thread John Hearns via Beowulf
> It’s so interesting to look at what was old being new again though. Lovely insight as always Joe! Indeed. Ideas always come around again in computing. My aphorism - always follow the herd. Look at what everyone is buying an implementing. Don't delve too deeply into the technical minutae of a pa

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread Tony Brian Albers
How about a local workstation that you connect to using X2go? Then just ssh into the host you want to manage. /tony On 2018-06-07 04:14, James Cuff wrote: > > I miss SGI jot. It had this super strange GL offload to the client that > I’ve never seen since. > > http://rainbow.ldeo.columbia.edu

Re: [Beowulf] Defective Mellanox EDR Switches

2018-06-06 Thread Ryan Novosielski
One slight correction: 100% of our switches with FRU PN 00WE097/PN 00WE096Y manufactured on 2016-11-28 (quantity 3) have failed, and one same FRU PN/PN manufactured on 2016-12-15 too. We have another switch with FRU PN 00WE093/PN 00WE092Y that was manufactured on 2016-11-28 that has so far been

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread James Cuff
I miss SGI jot. It had this super strange GL offload to the client that I’ve never seen since. http://rainbow.ldeo.columbia.edu/documentation/sgi-faq/apps/6.html We really need to find a solid way to do this whole remote GUI work. https://2018.isc-program.com/?page_id=10&id=wksp122&sess=sess279

Re: [Beowulf] FPGA storage accelerator

2018-06-06 Thread James Cuff
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 9:43 PM Joe Landman wrote: > Ha! "Then maybe, just maybe, perhaps 640 PB ought to be enough. Maybe." > Thanks for spotting that. I really am trying. Peebees :-) It’s so interesting to look at what was old being new again though. Lovely insight as always Joe! Back in

Re: [Beowulf] FPGA storage accelerator

2018-06-06 Thread Joe Landman
Ha! "Then maybe, just maybe, perhaps 640 PB ought to be enough. Maybe." Back in 2005 or so, we had these little USB connected FPGA that we were using for various annotation tools.  I remember one for BLAST, and doing HMMer on GPUs.  I seem to remember shocking the person from NVidia at SC2006

[Beowulf] FPGA storage accelerator

2018-06-06 Thread James Cuff
Hi team, Stumbled across this tech the other day and wrote a little piece about it. Feels a bit like the old days to me. What do we think? It’s kinda fascinating, hope to catch up with a few ‘wulfers at ISC later this month. https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/06/06/thanks-for-the-memories/ Best,

Re: [Beowulf] Project Natick

2018-06-06 Thread Jonathan Engwall
The whitepaper describes an association between elements of an image with elements that surround that element. The black stripes on a tiger for example distinguish from all the other orange animals. If there are any. They call this a CNN. The fpga stores data on a chip, but the servers have teslas.

Re: [Beowulf] Project Natick

2018-06-06 Thread Chris Samuel
On Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:34:54 AM AEST Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Has anybody seen any more details on how the cooling actually occurs withing > the capsule? There's a bit more here: https://datacenterfrontier.com/the-watery-edge-microsoft-deploys-undersea-servers-in-scotland/ # A key change f

Re: [Beowulf] Project Natick

2018-06-06 Thread Jonathan Engwall
The whitepaper says the acceleration processes 70 images per second per watt. More juice more better? I will read the whole thing a little later tonight. On Jun 6, 2018 1:47 PM, "Tomasz Rola" wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 04:55:03PM +0200, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote: > > Reading into this

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread Deng Xiaodong
In this case I would think SSH + nano/vi may be better choice as the data transited is less. Another way to bypass may be to use scp to copy files between your remote and local machines then edit locally? On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 05:28 David Mathog wrote: > Off Topic. > > I need to do some work

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 02:28:03PM -0700, David Mathog wrote: > Off Topic. > > I need to do some work on a system 3000 miles away. No problem > connecting to it with ssh or setting X11 forwarding, but the delays > are such that my usual editor (nedit) spends far too much time > redrawing to be us

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread David Mathog
On 06-Jun-2018 15:28, Fred Youhanaie wrote: Does enabling ssh compression with -C help? The local side is over putty from a Windows machine. Enabled its ssh compression option, which I think is the same thing. It didn't make a noticeable difference. Thanks, David Mathog mat...@caltech.ed

[Beowulf] Defective Mellanox EDR Switches

2018-06-06 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Something to be aware of, potentially, if you happen to own any of this equipment: 100% of our Mellanox SwitchIB2 SB7890 EDR externally-managed switches that were manufactured on 2016-11-28 have failed. I’ve been told there was a manufacturing defect related to capacitors in the voltage regulat

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread Fred Youhanaie
Does enabling ssh compression with -C help? Fred Youhanaie On 06/06/18 22:28, David Mathog wrote: Off Topic. I need to do some work on a system 3000 miles away.  No problem connecting to it with ssh or setting X11 forwarding, but the delays are such that my usual editor (nedit) spends far too

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread Joe Landman
typed on a phone, so auto-co-wrecked ... VNC On 06/06/2018 05:56 PM, David Mathog wrote: Thanks for all the responses. On 06-Jun-2018 14:40, Joe Landman wrote: When I absolutely need a gui for something this this, I'll light up BBC over ssh session.  Performance has been good even crossing th

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread David Mathog
Thanks for all the responses. On 06-Jun-2018 14:40, Joe Landman wrote: When I absolutely need a gui for something this this, I'll light up BBC over ssh session. Performance has been good even crossing the big pond. What is BBC? Google wasn't much help given the British Broadcasting Company'

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread Joe Landman
Wait ... nedit? I wrote my thesis with that (LaTeX) some (mumble) decades ago ... On June 6, 2018 5:28:30 PM David Mathog wrote: Off Topic. I need to do some work on a system 3000 miles away. No problem connecting to it with ssh or setting X11 forwarding, but the delays are such that my us

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread Joe Landman
When I absolutely need a gui for something this this, I'll light up BBC over ssh session. Performance has been good even crossing the big pond. This said, vim handles this nicely as well. On June 6, 2018 5:28:30 PM David Mathog wrote: Off Topic. I need to do some work on a system 3000 mile

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread Andrew Latham
You can use a local editor and sshfs to shift the load if that helps. On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 4:28 PM David Mathog wrote: > Off Topic. > > I need to do some work on a system 3000 miles away. No problem > connecting to it with ssh or setting X11 forwarding, but the delays are > such that my usual

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread Alex Chekholko via Beowulf
You can try to use 'mosh' which will echo local characters before they are echoed on the remote side. YMMV. https://mosh.org/ On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 2:28 PM David Mathog wrote: > Off Topic. > > I need to do some work on a system 3000 miles away. No problem > connecting to it with ssh or setti

Re: [Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Pretty sure your problem is X11, not the editor. VNC or FastX or NX or similar would likely solve the problem. > On Jun 6, 2018, at 5:28 PM, David Mathog wrote: > > Off Topic. > > I need to do some work on a system 3000 miles away. No problem connecting to > it with ssh or setting X11 forwar

[Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

2018-06-06 Thread David Mathog
Off Topic. I need to do some work on a system 3000 miles away. No problem connecting to it with ssh or setting X11 forwarding, but the delays are such that my usual editor (nedit) spends far too much time redrawing to be useful. Resizing a screen is particularly painful. Are there any X11

Re: [Beowulf] Project Natick

2018-06-06 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 04:55:03PM +0200, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote: > Reading into this a bit more on the Microsoft site, the intention is to > power these things using renewables such as wind or tidal power. > I've never been to Orkney, but as it famously has no trees ther eis plenty > of win

[Beowulf] Job Opportunity @ The University of Chicago

2018-06-06 Thread Stephen Fralich
The Research Computing Center at the University of Chicago is looking for a Linux Systems Administrator. This is a re-post. The requirements of the position have been modified. Most notably, the requirement for a master's degree has been removed. You would be joining two HPC systems administrat

Re: [Beowulf] Project Natick

2018-06-06 Thread John Hearns via Beowulf
Reading into this a bit more on the Microsoft site, the intention is to power these things using renewables such as wind or tidal power. I've never been to Orkney, but as it famously has no trees ther eis plenty of wind I am sure... Might make sense actually as they say for remote communities. The

Re: [Beowulf] Project Natick

2018-06-06 Thread Prentice Bisbal
I heard about this on BBC World News this morning on my way into work. I waas going to share this here myself this morning. What isn't clear is how the heat is being transferred from the CPUs to the seawater. My best guess at the moment is that the capsule's steel walls conduct heat from the h

[Beowulf] Project Natick

2018-06-06 Thread John Hearns via Beowulf
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44368813 https://natick.research.microsoft.com/ I must admit my first thoughts on hearing an item about this on Radio Scotland is that now that humans have laid waste to the surface of the Earth we are going to boil the oceans. My second thought is for the poor