Re: [Beowulf] Finally, a solution for the 64 core 4TB RAM market

2009-05-28 Thread Franz Marini
u try to be smart while being really tired after a long day ;) Sorry, please everyone disregard my comments :) F. ----- Franz Marini Prof. R. A. Broglia Theoretical Physics of Nuclei, Atomic Clusters and Proteins Research Group

Re: [Beowulf] Finally, a solution for the 64 core 4TB RAM market

2009-05-28 Thread Franz Marini
ops now, not bad ;)). So I expect large scale availability sometime in Q4 '09... F. --------- Franz Marini Prof. R. A. Broglia Theoretical Physics of Nuclei, Atomic Clusters and Proteins Research Group Dept. of Physics, U

Re: [Beowulf] NVidia woes

2009-04-12 Thread Franz Marini
When X is started, it will pick up the correct nvidia driver. I have a ten lines script which does exactly that for all our workstations, and it works flawlessly. F. --------- Franz Marini Prof. R. A. Broglia Theoretical Physics of Nuclei, Atom

Re: [Beowulf] Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers

2008-12-06 Thread Franz Marini
accelerator board, he would (only) need to support OpenCL to overcome all, except maybe cost, the problems that plagued the older solutions I mentioned before... Interesting times ahead ;) F. --------- Franz Marini Prof. R. A. Broglia Th

Re: [Beowulf] What class of PDEs/numerical schemes suitable for GPU clusters

2008-11-21 Thread Franz Marini
tary also means that it probably better targets the NV GPU architecture, and a more general, portable solution, like OpenCL (which seems to be closer than expected, by the way) will possibly mean a somewhat less optimal use of the GPU. Maybe I'm wrong, though, I guess

Re: [Beowulf] What class of PDEs/numerical schemes suitable for GPU clusters

2008-11-21 Thread Franz Marini
lly have more ram, and (but I'm not sure about this one) they are clocked a little lower. F. ----- Franz Marini Prof. R. A. Broglia Theoretical Physics of Nuclei, Atomic Clusters and Proteins Research Group Dept. of Physics, Univers

Re: [Beowulf] Re: GPU boards and cluster servers.

2008-09-11 Thread Franz Marini
has DP support. If you want to have an idea on how a "pro" CUDA board (that is, a Tesla) will perform, you can get a GTX280, which is top of the line. F. ----- Franz Marini Prof. R. A. Broglia Theoretical Physics of Nuclei,

Re: [Beowulf] cuda benchmark

2008-07-21 Thread Franz Marini
00GTX and the GTX 260 coolers take up two slots. F. --------- Franz Marini Prof. R. A. Broglia Theoretical Physics of Nuclei, Atomic Clusters and Proteins Research Group Dept. of Physics, University of Milan, Ital

RE: [Beowulf] Re: "hobbyists"

2008-06-23 Thread Franz Marini
dited and cut, and another one, the DVD one, uncut, get this one) and watch it. F. ----- Franz Marini Prof. R. A. Broglia Theoretical Physics of Nuclei, Atomic Clusters and Proteins Research Group Dept. of Physics, University of Milan, I

Re: [Beowulf] visualization machine

2008-03-31 Thread Franz Marini
eting people is allowed in the discussion ;) :D). I use the 8800GTX for VMD, Chimera, and in-house developed applications, and it works like a charm. Franz - Franz Marini Prof. R. A. Broglia Theoretical Physic