Re: [Beowulf] RAID for home beowulf

2009-10-13 Thread Greg Kurtzer
Hi Greg, On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:50:10AM -0700, Greg Kurtzer wrote: > >> The underlying components that make up a distribution are in-fact an >> important component to an HPC system in its entirety. There are many >&g

Re: [Beowulf] RAID for home beowulf

2009-10-12 Thread Greg Kurtzer
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Nifty Tom Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 12:02:11PM +0200, Tomislav Maric wrote: >> Nifty Tom Mitchell wrote: >> > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:08:27PM +0200, Tomislav Maric wrote: >> >> Mark Hahn wrote: >> I've seen Centos mentioned a lot in connecti

Re: [Beowulf] diskless how to

2009-10-09 Thread Greg Kurtzer
Have you looked at Perceus? It does all of the node management (stateless/diskless) plus some other very helpful features. http://www.perceus.org/ Good luck! Greg On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Tomislav Maric wrote: > Hi, > > I'm browsing through the web and there's multiple options for me

Re: [Beowulf] Virtualization in head node ?

2009-09-18 Thread Greg Kurtzer
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Robert G. Brown wrote: [snip] > On servers I run Centos or RHEL (licenses and all) as the vendor of the > software requires.  Generally Centos on top, then VMware, then RHEL VMs. > Works fine.  The only bad thing I've seen about Centos in the past is > the dark s

Re: [Beowulf] how large of an installation have people used NFS with? would 300 mounts kill performance?

2009-09-09 Thread Greg Kurtzer
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > Our new cluster aims to have around 300 compute nodes. I was wondering > what is the largest setup people have tested NFS with? Any tips or > comments? There seems no way for me to say if it will scale well or > not. > > I have been warned of p

Re: [Beowulf] recommendations for a good ethernet switch for connecting ~300 compute nodes

2009-09-08 Thread Greg Kurtzer
parallel) as they solve some different requirements. -- Greg Kurtzer http://www.infiscale.com/ http://www.perceus.org/ http://www.caoslinux.org/ ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest

Re: [Beowulf] recommendations for a good ethernet switch for connecting ~300 compute nodes

2009-09-08 Thread Greg Kurtzer
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Greg Kurtzer wrote: > > Thanks for the comments Greg! Sure thing. Glad to offer what I can. > >> If you were using Perceus. > > No. I've never used Perceus before and although

Re: [Beowulf] cli alternative to cluster top?

2008-11-30 Thread Greg Kurtzer
ulfstat was nixed as well because of the > xmlsysd dependency. > ___ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Greg Kurtzer http://www.infiscale.com

Re: [Beowulf] fast file copying

2007-05-04 Thread Greg Kurtzer
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Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-04-16 Thread Greg Kurtzer
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Re: [Beowulf] middleware for heterogeneous cluster

2007-01-28 Thread Greg Kurtzer
omputation. Technical University of Valencia. Spain. ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Greg Kurtzer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: gmku

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

2006-12-19 Thread Greg Kurtzer
misidentifying the problem. Either they figure out why we designed around dynamic, consistent caching and re-write, or the system will degrade over time. Why would a system not built around "dynamic consistent caching and re-write" degrade over time? Many thanks! Greg -- Greg Kurtzer [EM

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

2006-12-14 Thread Greg Kurtzer
and initial users). Thanks for inquiring! -- Greg Kurtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf

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

2006-12-13 Thread Greg Kurtzer
et me know. -- Greg Kurtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf