Re: [Beowulf] Your thoughts on the latest RHEL drama?

On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:27:23 -0400, you wrote: >By now, most of you should have heard about Red Hat's latest to >eliminate any competition to RHEL. If not, here's some links: I think it is safer to say IBM's efforts. >3. After RH starting contributing funding to GNOME development, the next >ma

Re: [Beowulf] Power Cycling Question

On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 15:35:11 -0400, you wrote: >Reducing power use has become an important topic. One >of the questions I always wondered about is >why more cluster do not turn off unused nodes. Slurm >has hooks to turn nodes off when not in use and >turn them on when resources are needed. Given

Re: [Beowulf] AMD and AVX512 [EXT]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 06:51:58 +0100, you wrote: >That is a very interesting point! I never thought of that. >Also mobile drives ARM development - yes I know the CPUs in Isambard and >Fugaku will not be seen in your mobile phone but the ecosystem is propped >up by having a diverse market and also th

Re: [Beowulf] AMD and AVX512

On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:15:40 -0400, you wrote: >The answer given, and I'm >not making this up, is that AMD listens to their users and gives the >users what they want, and right now they're not hearing any demand for >AVX512. > >Personally, I call BS on that one. I can't imagine anyone in the HP

Re: [Beowulf] [External] RIP CentOS 8 [EXT]

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:05:25 +, you wrote: >A fork is something im thinking about doing in all fairness. Hoping to start >soon on it. Need to at this point figure out how to clone the repositories and >start my own testing etc. Not trying to discourage you, but doing a Linux fork regardles

Re: [Beowulf] First cluster in 20 years - questions about today

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 21:27:51 -0500, you wrote: >Assuming my work and writing is acceptable quality, how likely will I be to >get published with just a master degree? Can't answer that, but my understanding is that publishing in academic style journals costs money so that may also be a consideratio

Re: [Beowulf] First cluster in 20 years - questions about today

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 21:27:51 -0500, you wrote: >I'm going to start by trying to learn abinit. They have experimental, CUDA >only, GPU support, so I may save up for some used nVidia cards at some >point, maybe I can find a deal on P106 class cards. Before looking for used Nvidia cards check your r

Re: [Beowulf] First cluster in 20 years - questions about today

On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 21:51:21 -0500, you wrote: >I'm testing FreeBSD right now and will test *SunOS before commiting a full >deployment. > >My initial 3 nodes are socket 940 Opteron based. I'm planning to acquire >two nodes of dual cpu hexacore Xeons for the cost of a small road trip next >weekend

Re: [Beowulf] First cluster in 20 years - questions about today

On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 22:21:09 -0500, you wrote: >Should I consider Solaris or illumos? I do plan on using ZFS, especially >for the data node, but I want as much redundancy as I can get, since I'm >going to be using used hardware. Will the fancy Solaris cluster tools be >useful? Unless you are abs

[Beowulf] Immersive Cooling

Given that is has come up in the past, a podcast and video about a supercomputer that uses liquid cooling https://insidehpc.com/2019/09/podcast-extreme-power-and-cooling-efficiency-at-downunder-geosolutions/ ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org

[Beowulf] arXiv - Securing HPC using Federated Authentication

Perhaps of interest to some https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07573 ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf

Re: [Beowulf] Lustre on google cloud

On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 04:10:12 +, you wrote: >They now have Lustre through FSx or what ever AWS have called it. I am not >sure you guys have heard about the capital one data breach but at times im >still rather weary of the cloud. Not sure what the Capital One data breach has to do with the c

Re: [Beowulf] flatpack

On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 22:47:30 -0700, you wrote: >On 22/7/19 10:40 pm, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > >> So in a nut shell this is taking dockerization/ containerization and >> making it more for the every day Linux user instead of the HPC user? > >I don't think this goes as far as containers with isola

[Beowulf] Nvidia bring CUDA to ARM

By the end of the year Nvidia will have CUDA and the associated AI / HPC stuff available for ARM https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-brings-cuda-to-arm-enabling-new-path-to-exascale-supercomputing ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org spons

Re: [Beowulf] Containers in HPC

On Fri, 24 May 2019 03:41:11 +, you wrote: >You mention to move data to storage how is fedora's gnome desktop edition >going to achieve that? Wont one need to use some sort of block storage on aws, >google cloud, azure or host your own setup in house? No idea, given that I don't like Gnome

Re: [Beowulf] Containers in HPC

On Thu, 23 May 2019 12:35:13 +, you wrote: >Thanks for the great explanation and clarification. Another question that >stems from the below what mechanisms exist in terms of security for the >containers to be as secure as a VM? I know there have been security concerns about Docker (what mos

[Beowulf] Containers in HPC

Paper on arXiv that may be of interest to some as it may be where HPC is heading even for private clusters: Evalutation of Docker Containers for Scientific Workloads in the Cloud https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08415 ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

On Mon, 20 May 2019 18:42:31 -0400, you wrote: >I am curious, do you have some evidence for the demise of CentOS >other than IBM bought RH? The important thing to remember about CentOS (and presumably why Red Hat brought it on board) is that it is not really a RHEL competitor, rather it is a RHEL

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

On Fri, 17 May 2019 10:10:16 -0400, you wrote: >On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:01 AM Jonathan Aquilina > wrote: >> >> Redhat and IBM im worried as I use Centos big time and then the only thing I >> can think of is forking fedora and roll a rolling distro if they decide to >> pull the plug. But we ha

Re: [Beowulf] Frontier Announcement

On Wed, 8 May 2019 14:13:51 -0400, you wrote: >On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:47 PM Jörg Saßmannshausen < >sassy-w...@sassy.formativ.net> wrote: >> >Once upon a time portability, interoperabiilty, standardization, were >considered good software and hardware attributes. >Whatever happened to them? I sus

Re: [Beowulf] LFortran ... a REPL/Compiler for Fortran

On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 06:07:00 -0700, you wrote: >Hmm, how does this compare to Flang >? > >On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 12:33 PM Joe Landman wrote: > >> See https://docs.lfortran.org/ . Figured Jeff Layton would like this :D It appears based on the limited in

Re: [Beowulf] Introduction and question

On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:31:38 -0400, you wrote: >Thanks for sharing this. I was recently asked for my input in a job >description for a new position. They wanted to make the education >requirements a minimum of a BS in Math, Physics, Engineering, or CS. I >recommended that they DO NOT list any e

Re: [Beowulf] Large amounts of data to store and process

On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 05:28:42 +, you wrote: >I think what I was getting at is why not include the current HPC practices to >every day desktops in the sense since we are reaching certain limits and have >to write code to take advantage of more and more cores. Why not use MPI and >the like to

Re: [Beowulf] 2 starting questions on how I should proceed for a correct first micro-cluster (2-nodes) building

On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 09:28:03 +, you wrote: >ps. If you are interested in parallelism... there is Julia. >https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/parallel-computing/index.html Also Chapel https://chapel-lang.org/ ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beo

Re: [Beowulf] HPC workflows

On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 16:19:30 +0100, you wrote: >Perhaps for another thread: >Actually I went t the AWS USer Group in the UK on Wednesday. Ver >impressive, and there are the new Lustre filesystems and MPI networking. >I guess the HPC World will see the same philosophy of building your setup >using t

Re: [Beowulf] HPC workflows

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 09:35:07 -0800, you wrote: >Certainly the inability of distros to find the person-hours to package >everything plays a role as well, your cause and effect chain there is >pretty accurate. Where I begin to branch is at the idea of software that is >unable to be packaged in an rpm

Re: [Beowulf] HPC workflows

On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 10:12:10 -0800, you wrote: > And then I realized that I was seeing >software which was "easier to containerize" and that "easier to >containerize" really meant "written by people who can't figure out >'./configure; make; make install' and who build on a sand-like foundation >of

Re: [Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 11:25:01 -0500, you wrote: > From my experience, CS professors like to teach in Java because it's a >"pure" object-oriented programming language, unlike C++ which is just C >with object-oriented extensions,and still allows you to use C syntax. Java took over in part because a

Re: [Beowulf] HPC workflows

On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 06:43:05 +0100, you wrote: >My own thoughts on HPC for a tightly coupled, on premise setup is that we >need a lightweight OS on the nodes, which does the bare minimum. No general >purpose utilities, no GUIS, nothing but network and storage. And container >support. One of the la

Re: [Beowulf] HPC workflows

On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 13:51:05 +0100, you wrote: >Now I am all for connecting divers and flexible workflows to true HPC systems >and grids that feel different if not experienced >with (otherwise what is the use of a computer if there are no users making use >of it?), but do not make the mistake of

Re: [Beowulf] HPC workflows

On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 07:51:06 -0500, you wrote: >On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:50 PM Gerald Henriksen wrote: >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:26:42 +0100, you wrote: >> If on premise HPC doesn't change to reflect the way the software is >> developed today then the users will in t

Re: [Beowulf] HPC workflows

On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:26:42 +0100, you wrote: >This leads me to ask - shoudl we be presenting HPC services as a 'cloud' >service, no matter that it is a non-virtualised on-premise setup? >In which case the way to deploy software would be via downloading from >Repos. >I guess this is actually more

Re: [Beowulf] Oh.. IBM eats Red Hat

On Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:21:20 -0800, you wrote: >KDE is being dropped and guess who supports Gnome3...IBM! Coincidence. The timing of the announcement is such that the IBM purchase could have nothing to do with it, certain headlines notwithstanding. Given how bad KDE is on RHEL (RHEL 7 is still

Re: [Beowulf] Oh.. IBM eats Red Hat

On Sun, 04 Nov 2018 11:28:31 +, you wrote: >There is one thing that is going to be super interesting to see. Red hat >fairly recently absorbed Centos Dev's and added them to the pay roll. > >Two questions yet to be answered are Well, anything is obviously possible and there is certainly exam

Re: [Beowulf] More about those underwater data centers

On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 18:27:05 +, you wrote: > I’m not sure there’s a huge population of Xcloud-Xbox gamers in Orkney. > There's not much daylight this time of year, of course, so maybe that's what > those Orcadians are up to. Likely just a convenient place for a second test unit. In a way t

Re: [Beowulf] Oh.. IBM eats Red Hat

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:22:00 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >But your observations certainly have some validity, which is one of many >reasons that there is room in the universe for competition here. I >really have wanted to be able to go both ways -- run Android apps on my >laptops (including paid apps

Re: [Beowulf] Oh.. IBM eats Red Hat

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 06:44:38 +, you wrote: >MArk Shuttleworth's statement here >https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/10/30/statement-on-ibm-acquisition-of-red-hat >I make no comment. Sounds like a for sale listing. ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.

Re: [Beowulf] Oh.. IBM eats Red Hat

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:49:05 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >> "Will Amazon, Google, and Microsoft now run out and buy SUSE, Ubuntu, >> Apache, etc? Yes. >> >> "Will there be a mad rush to create new Linux distros? No. I think that boat >> has already sailed and further Linux branding won?t happen, at l

Re: [Beowulf] New tools from FB and Uber

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 01:27:23 +0800, you wrote: >FB has open sourced some interestimg kernel tools, including 'cgroups2' and >btfrs (!! Wasn't that already floss?) Btrfs has been around for a while, and has even been in the Linux kernel for a while. I'm guessing that Facebook has had their own de

Re: [Beowulf] Oh.. IBM eats Red Hat

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:58:18 -0400, you wrote: >The downside to (most) of the stable distros are the aging compilers, >languages, and libraries.  RH ships with 4.9.x, Debian 9.x ships with >6.3.x.  You can easily install gcc7 and gcc8 in debian.  Its a little >harder for pre-built rpms in RH (a

Re: [Beowulf] Oh.. IBM eats Red Hat

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:49:29 +, you wrote: >> oh, but RH's function is so much more nowadays than just a paid for >distribution. >> hence the acquisition which is not about that. but the whole ecosystem >can suffer as a result. >Well said. coreutils gccllvm…. what of them? >Redhat does

Re: [Beowulf] Oh.. IBM eats Red Hat

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:45:32 -0400, you wrote: >How well has Linux been supporting IBM's POWER processors? I would >imagine pretty well, since the Linux community always seems eager to run >on new hardware. Quite well, but it really isn't community driven. Fedora has both PPC64 and PPC64LE ava

Re: [Beowulf] C++ compilers and assembly

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 04:50:24 +0100, you wrote: >Lastly Jason mentioned IncludeOS http://www.includeos.org/ >these gusy are implementing something I have tossed about on this list >in the past - running applications in a lightweight OS without all the >overhead of a multitasking system. >I dont kno

Re: [Beowulf] If I were specifying a new custer...

On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:35:52 +1100, you wrote: >On Saturday, 13 October 2018 12:38:15 AM AEDT Gerald Henriksen wrote: > >> If ARM, or Power, want to move from their current positions in the >> market they really need to provide affordable developer machines, > >Not su

Re: [Beowulf] If I were specifying a new custer...

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:24:18 +0100, you wrote: >Doug, >I think the ARM/Cavium Thunder is going to see a lot of attention. >I saw a report recently from the Bristol/Cray Brunel cluster - they are >offering a range of chemistry codes and OpenFOAM, >compiled up for ARM. Perhaps this paper? http://uo

Re: [Beowulf] If I were specifying a new custer...

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:24:18 +0100, you wrote: >I think the ARM/Cavium Thunder is going to see a lot of attention. >I saw a report recently from the Bristol/Cray Brunel cluster - they are >offering a range of chemistry codes and OpenFOAM, >compiled up for ARM. >Poke me and I will search for the re

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

On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:04:07 -0700, you wrote: >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

Re: [Beowulf] [upgrade strategy] Intel CPU design bug & security flaw - kernel fix imposes performance penalty

On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:32:19 -0500, you wrote: >According to several articles I read today: > >Meltdown (1 exploit)is Intel-specific >Spectre  (2 different exploits) affects just about every processor on >the planet. For anyone interested this is AMD's response: https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/

Re: [Beowulf] nVidia revealed as evil

On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:52:19 +, you wrote: >There has been a conversation going on on the AMBER mailing list for some >time, related to this and specifically to the Volta card in some way, since >AMBER performs best on the consumer grade stuff and doesn’t require the >enterprise class featur

Re: [Beowulf] [upgrade strategy] Intel CPU design bug & security flaw - kernel fix imposes performance penalty

On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:32:19 -0500, you wrote: >According to several articles I read today: > >Meltdown (1 exploit)is Intel-specific >Spectre  (2 different exploits) affects just about every processor on >the planet. This is correct, and the other key difference is that so far there is only a sol

Re: [Beowulf] Intel kills Knights Hill, Xeon Phi line "being revised"

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote: > > I partially disagree with "confusion". It's simple because KNM has minimal > microarchitecture changes vs KNL, and does not focus on normal > DP-precision. KNM focuses on SP etc, and is oriented to Deep Learning, AI > etc. > > > By conf

Re: [Beowulf] Intel kills Knights Hill, Xeon Phi line "being revised"

On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:45:40 +1100, you wrote: >Interesting times (via a colleague on the Australian HPC Slack). > >https://www.top500.org/news/intel-dumps-knights-hill-future-of-xeon-phi-product-line-uncertain/ > >Looks like fallout from the delayed Aurora system. > >Rumours flying that the Xeon

Re: [Beowulf] Intel kills Knights Hill, Xeon Phi line "being revised"

On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:45:40 +1100, you wrote: >Interesting times (via a colleague on the Australian HPC Slack). > >https://www.top500.org/news/intel-dumps-knights-hill-future-of-xeon-phi-product-line-uncertain/ > >Looks like fallout from the delayed Aurora system. > >Rumours flying that the Xeon

[Beowulf] Your Raspberry Pi dream comes true

750 node cluster in use at LANL for development purposes: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12037/cheap-supercomputers-lanl-has-750node-raspberry-pi-development-clusters https://www.servethehome.com/bitscope-raspberry-pi-cluster-3000-cores-30u/ http://cluster.bitscope.com/solutions ___

[Beowulf] ARM aims at HPC with new instruction set

ARM V8-A adds scalable vector extensions: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10586/arm-announces-arm-v8a-with-scalable-vector-extensions-aiming-for-hpc-and-data-center ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your

[Beowulf] Lastest Xeon Phi

In a 2U chasis you can get 4 Xeon Phi systems (each with 72 cores): http://www.anandtech.com/show/10553/asrock-rack-launches-2u4nf-x-200-knights-landing-xeon-phi-cpu ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change

Re: [Beowulf] recommendations on ARM distro?

Forgot in my reply to include a link to the $300 board: http://www.lenovator.com/product/103.html There is also supposed to be something called a HuskyBoard but no indication of when/if it will ship: http://www.96boards.org/products/ee/ ___ Beowulf ma

Re: [Beowulf] recommendations on ARM distro?

On Mon, 16 May 2016 00:27:21 +0800, you wrote: >Very nice reply Gerald, not meaning to nit, but for certain workloads >I'd emphasize that accelerators make more sense than Intel. Yes, and more below. >Power and ARM have some uphill battles ahead of them, but I'm >optimistic that in the next 2-4

Re: [Beowulf] recommendations on ARM distro?

On Fri, 13 May 2016 11:38:33 +0800, you wrote: >My issue in general with aarch64 OS has been the pita install process. If >that's now insert USB drive.. click click done I'd be really happy. Trying to >deal with it via remote hands who may or may not be familiar with Linux is >painful Red Hat

Re: [Beowulf] recommendations on ARM distro?

On Sun, 15 May 2016 09:39:50 +0200, you wrote: >Was actually thinking of a clustered server setup using 64bit arm board >if possible First problem is that while the RPi3 has a 64bit cpu, there is only support for 32bit operating systems (you need binary blobs to get Linux running on these ARM boa

Re: [Beowulf] recommendations on ARM distro?

On Fri, 13 May 2016 03:09:26 +0800, you wrote: >2) Fedora has put quite a bit of effort into their AArch64 distro The web based information about AArch64 Fedora is not the greatest, but despite that Red Hat is putting a lot of effort into AArch64 and making sure everything runs correctly. The Fe

[Beowulf] New Tesla P100 from NVIDIA

Of course no price given, however: http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/05/nvidia-creates-a-15b-transistor-chip-for-deep-learning/ http://anandtech.com/show/10222/nvidia-announces-tesla-p100-accelerator-pascal-power-for-hpc ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@

Re: [Beowulf] RAID question

On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:00:15 -0700, you wrote: >The disk errors were a red herring. The system had a Seagate USB disk >plugged into it which I was not aware of. (It was less not obvious >because of the rats nest of cables behind it.) This disk's partition >table was marked bootable - even tho

Re: [Beowulf] Xeon D systems? (and 10G in general)

On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:49:48 -0300, you wrote: >I'm not sure of what to make of this new Xeon, especially because it >cuts right through the E3-1200 series, as you can see in the link that >John provided, but may I speculate a little with two possibilities: > >- Intel is phasing out the E3-1200

Re: [Beowulf] IBM paying GlobalFoundries to take their CPU business

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:30:30 +1100, you wrote: >On 21/10/14 08:11, Douglas Eadline wrote: > >> Which means to me, $1.5bn is far less than they would spend over >> the next 5-10 years running a FAB. And, I'm sure they >> get a special parking spot out front for when they need >> to make wafers. (i.

Re: [Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 16:54:34 +0200, you wrote: >Rapidly changing distros is mentioned in the response. What would classify >a rapidly changing distro. Rapidly changing would be Fedora/Mint/Ubuntu with their 6 month release schedules, as opposed to Red Hat or the long term release version of Mint

Re: [Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:38:22 +0200, you wrote: >My arguments for gentoo is more along the lines of optimization of the >source code for ones hardware. Every now and then someone gets on the Fedora list suggesting/demanding that they change some compiler flags or other optimizations that the perso

[Beowulf] Intel MXC

Intel will introduce MXC, which they are calling "next generation optical connector" with speeds up to 1.6 Terabits per second at Intel Developer Forum (Sept. 10 to 12). Protocols supported include Infiniband, Ethernet and PCI-Express. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2046676/intel-proposes-new-sta

[Beowulf] IBM announcement

Not much in the way of actual information yet but IBM, NVIDIA, and others have formed the OpenPOWER consortium: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/41684.wss ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To chan

Re: [Beowulf] Bolts of Thunder and Upgraded desktop interconnect silicon....

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:57:29 -0400, you wrote: >So a company based out of Cupertino mentioned using this silicon in a >revamp of their MacPro line today... > >http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2013/06/video-creation-bolts-ahead-%E2%80%93-intel%E2%80%99s-thunderbolt%E2%84%A2-2-doubles-bandwidth-ena

Re: [Beowulf] Oracle sells Lustre to Xyratex

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:42:39 +0100, you wrote: > > >http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Oracle-verkauft-Cluster-Dateisystem-Lustre-an-Xyratex-1806924.html > In English from the purchaser: http://www.xyratex.com/news/blog/xyratex-assumes-ownership-lustre%C2%AE-and-related-assets

Re: [Beowulf] Xeon Phi out as well

Tom's Hardware has a report on the Intel presentation: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/xeon-phi-larrabee-stampede-hpc,3342.html ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or

Re: [Beowulf] Digital Image Processing via HPC/Cluster/Beowulf - Basics

On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 02:16:30 +0100, you wrote: >Jim as someone who produced games, this is not how it works for most >movies/animations/commercials where graphics work is needed. > >Note that most movies get editted as well in the same way (each >nation usually has different requirements). > >F

Re: [Beowulf] cluster building advice?

On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:54:01 +0200, you wrote: >There's nearly nothing there at that link. > >Just a handful of SRPMS. All of the SRPMS for SL are there. >My point of openfabrics is: most people build a cluster in order to >be have more performance >than a single machine can give. Not seldom t

Re: [Beowulf] cluster building advice?

On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:59:13 +0200, you wrote: >Yes easily. > >Google for what linus posted there and what i posted there in code >around 2007 already. > >Where i showed how f'ed up GCC was, where it basically modified some >simple code sample >to something ugly slow, instead of creating a CMO