Re: [Beowulf] Erlang as a language for Beowulf applications

2007-09-04 Thread Eric Shook
I am engaged in similar explorations and I too have found the Erlang language as a possible solution to scaling issues. I have been experimenting with the language for almost a month so my evidence below is not by any means conclusive. With that said in my opinion the language has a fatal flaw

Re: [Beowulf] any gp-gpu clusters?

2007-06-22 Thread Eric Shook
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Re: [Beowulf] any gp-gpu clusters?

2007-06-22 Thread Eric Shook
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Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-01-18 Thread Eric Shook
Ashley Pittman wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 08:50 +0100, Mikael Fredriksson wrote: Eric Shook wrote: I talked to our SGI rep about this yesterday and he told me they are not really targeting "hard-core" university research where Linux/UNIX already has a strong foot hold. Inste

Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-01-16 Thread Eric Shook
lready 100% Windows Infrastructure is more appealing. This was his take and it seemed reasonable to me. Eric Shook -- Eric Shook (319) 335-6714 Technical Lead, Systems and Operations - GROW http://grow.uiowa.edu Mikael Fredriksson wrote: Hi all of You Beowulfers. This article: "SGI to o

Re: [Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Shook
ocks DHCP and PXE changes and replaces them with warewulf...it isn't pretty but it does work. Regards, Bill. -----Original Message- From: Eric Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:28 PM To: Bill Bryce Cc: Michael Will; Buccaneer for Hire.; beowulf@beo

Re: [Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Shook
eg Kurtzer wrote: On Dec 9, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Eric Shook wrote: Not to diverge this conversation, but has anyone had any experience using this pxe boot / nfs model with a rhel variant? I have been wanting to do a nfs root or ramdisk model for some-time but our software stack requires a rh

Re: [Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes

2006-12-12 Thread Eric Shook
know anything more specific than that, but if you are interested I am sure he would not mind if you where to contact him directly. Michael -Original Message- From: Eric Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:27 AM To: Michael Will Cc: Buccaneer for Hire.; be

Re: [Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes

2006-12-12 Thread Eric Shook
ROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Will Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 7:15 PM To: Eric Shook; Buccaneer for Hire. Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: RE: [Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes Scyld CW4 is based on RHEL4 and also supported on Centos 4. That does

Re: [Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes

2006-12-12 Thread Eric Shook
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Shook Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 11:28 AM To: Buccaneer for Hire. Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes Not to diverge this conversation, but has anyone had any experience using this pxe boot

Re: [Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes

2006-12-09 Thread Eric Shook
am still looking into both of them to make sure) Thanks for any help, Eric Shook Buccaneer for Hire. wrote: [snip] I agree with what Joe says about a few hundred nodes being the time you would start to look closer at this approach. I have started to explore the possibility of using

Re: [Beowulf] 'liquid cooled' racks

2006-12-05 Thread Eric Shook
hanks, Eric Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:13:38AM -0600, Eric Shook wrote: Hi Bruce, Our University is also looking into these racks. We have also looked at other vendors with similar liquid cooling and something called "Spraycool" technology (limited in de

Re: [Beowulf] 'liquid cooled' racks

2006-12-05 Thread Eric Shook
e list and would be willing to share some information. Thanks, Eric -- Eric Shook (319) 335-6714 Technical Lead, Systems and Operations - GROW http://grow.uiowa.edu Bruce Allen wrote: Dear Beowulf list, For my next cluster room, I am hoping to use 'liquid cooled' racks make by Kn

Re: [Beowulf] cluster building for teaching (on the cheap)

2006-08-28 Thread Eric Shook
er as well. They might even have some curriculum modules for your physics class already in their collection. If you would like more information or would like to discuss this further please let me know. Thanks, Eric Shook Disclaimer: I am also a part of the LittleFe project. -- Eric Shook