Re: [Beowulf] Restricting users from ssh into nodes

2013-08-20 Thread Daniel Kidger
hem interactive access to those compute nodes - eg for profiling, debugging or computational steering. Daniel Daniel Kidger Bull Information Systems, UK On 25 July 2013 06:08, Christopher Samuel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 25/07/13 14:40, Mark

Re: [Beowulf] Xeon Phi

2012-09-19 Thread Daniel Kidger
On 19 September 2012 15:09, Chris Dagdigian wrote: > Daniel Kidger wrote: > >> The technology was also known as MIC : pronounced 'Mick' or 'Mike' >> depending on who you spoke to. >> That was confusing - so with PHI it is now unambiguous right? er

[Beowulf] Southampton's RPi cluster is cool but too many cables?

2012-09-18 Thread Daniel Kidger
All, Having seen the pictures of Simon's Raspberry Pi cluster at Southampton, one thing that strikes me is how ugly all the cables make it look. So how can this be improved - indeed is 'cable-free' possible? - The network could be Wifi using micro adapters. - USB Power could be at least daisy-cha

Re: [Beowulf] FY;) GROMACS on the Raspberry Pi

2012-09-18 Thread Daniel Kidger
Eugen, I am certainly interested ! I touched on the Gromacs port to ClearSpeed when I worked there - I then went on to write the port of AMBER to CS plus I have a pair of RPis that I tinker with. Simon Cox at Southampton did a publicity stunt recently - building a 64node RPi cluster with his youn

Re: [Beowulf] Xeon Phi

2012-09-18 Thread Daniel Kidger
John, Remember that Knight's Corner is an instance (cf IvyBridge) whereas Phi is a product line (cf Xeon) In the same way Kepler is an instance of Nvidia's Telsa line. The technology was also known as MIC : pronounced 'Mick' or 'Mike' depending on who you spoke to. That was confusing - so with PH

Re: [Beowulf] Execution time measurements

2011-06-24 Thread Daniel . Kidger
Mikhail, I still think that there could be a NUMA issue here With no NUMA binding: - the one process case can migrate between cores on the core sockets - if its memory is on the first socket, then it will run a little slower when scheduled on the second socket. - with two process on a node, th

Re: [Beowulf] Quadrics?

2011-01-11 Thread Daniel Kidger
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Re: [Beowulf] how Google warps your brain

2010-10-25 Thread Daniel Kidger
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Re: [Beowulf] Broadcast - not for HPC - or is it?

2010-10-08 Thread Daniel Kidger
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Re: [Beowulf] Broadcast - not for HPC - or is it?

2010-10-07 Thread Daniel Kidger
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[Beowulf] mpirun and line buffering

2009-10-26 Thread Daniel Kidger
not line buffered and so the output is largely unreadable as all the lines have been jumbled together. Is this a known issue with a workaround? or does everyone else only print from just one MPI process? Daniel -- Bull, Architect of an Open World TM Dr. Daniel Kidger, HPC Technical Consu

Re: [Beowulf] Best Practices SOL vs Cyclades ACS

2009-10-09 Thread Daniel . Kidger
>Rich Sudlow wrote: >> In the past we've used cyclades console servers for serial >> interfaces into our cluster nodes. >> >> We're replacing 360 nodes which couldn't do SOL with 360 >> which could. >> >> Now that we can do SOL is that a better to use that instead of the >> Cyclades? >> >> Thou

Re: [Beowulf] Re: What is the right lubricant for computer rack sliding rails?

2009-02-08 Thread Daniel Kidger
Actually I had never heard of Astroglide until yesterday - I guess it is only sold in the USA. I saw it mentioned on Wikipedia when I searched for 'lubricant' (!) But you have got to admit, if NASA invented something for easing sticking rails in clusters, Astroglide would be a great product name. >

Re: [Beowulf] What is the right lubricant for computer rack sliding rails?

2009-02-08 Thread Daniel Kidger
> >> Dear Beowulfers > >> > >> A mundane question: > >> > >> What is the right lubricant for computer rack sliding > rails? > >> Silicone, paraffin, graphite, WD-40, machine oil, grease, > other? To avoid such lock-ups, we use Crisco

Re: [Beowulf] Inside Tsubame - the Nvidia GPU supercomputer - OpenCL

2008-12-17 Thread Daniel Kidger
Tsubame isn't just about delivering flops to production codes. It is trying to spearhead coprocessing. The people there have been porting codes to ClearSpeed / GPUs for a while - and hence been publishing their experiences. Daniel On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 12:01 +, Loic Tortay wrote: > Florent C

RE: [Beowulf] 'liquid cooled' racks

2006-12-06 Thread Daniel Kidger
ausing the Flurinert to catch fire? Daniel Dr. Daniel Kidger, Technical Consultant, ClearSpeed Technology plc, Bristol, UK E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: +44 117 317 2030 M: +44 7738 458742 "Write a wise saying and your name will live forever." - Anonymous. -Original Message- From: [EMAI

RE: [Beowulf] AMD Opteron Linpack Benchmark

2006-09-25 Thread Daniel Kidger
any online resources for this ? Daniel Dr. Daniel Kidger, Technical Consultant, ClearSpeed Technology plc, Bristol, UK E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: +44 117 317 2030 M: +44 7738 458742 "Write a wise saying and your name will live forever." - Anonymous. -Original Message- Fro

RE: [Beowulf] cluster softwares supporting parallel CFD computing

2006-09-06 Thread Daniel Kidger
Bogdan, Parallel applications with lots of MPI traffic should run fine on a cluster with large jiffies - just as long as the interconnect you use doesn't need to take any interrupts. (Interrupts add hugely to the latency figure) Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:

RE: [Beowulf] Need Help about HPL...!

2006-08-22 Thread Daniel Kidger
platforms, ACML on AMD, or there are generic ones like the excellent libgoto or ATLAS. b) an MPI library such as lam, mpich or similar If you tell us the locations of these two, many people on this list would be able to mail you a suitable Make. file Daniel Dr. Daniel Kidger, Technical

[Beowulf] Intel Trace Collector (fka Vampir) on Opteron

2006-08-17 Thread Daniel Kidger
s met this same issue? 2. Which is the latest version of ITC/Vampir that can be used on Opteron? 3. Is there a workaround (cf. the patch to use the Intel compiler on Opteron)? Daniel Dr. Daniel Kidger, Technical Consultant, Clearspeed plc, Bristol UK E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: +44 117 317 2030 M

RE: [Beowulf] shared memory versus MPI and bootless boot

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Kidger
Geoff Jacobs wrote: >Jim Lux wrote: >> Heh, heh, heh.. >> I have a box of Artisoft 2Mbps NICs out in the garage. >> Or, maybe, some of those NE1000 coax adapters. I have lots of old coax, >> a bag full of connectors, a crimper, and I'm not afraid to use them. >> >> Hey, it's only to boot. >Save

RE: [Beowulf] Acceptable rad limits for cluster rooms?

2006-06-19 Thread Daniel Kidger
. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1545894&isnumber=3 2989 .. not sure about any issue with beta radiation and clusters - most nodes are in metal boxes in metal racks? Daniel Dr. Daniel Kidger, Technical Consultant, Clearspeed plc, Bristol UK E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: