Re: [Beowulf] Frontier Announcement

2019-05-09 Thread Jeffrey Layton
;t of much use for GPUs." Apologies. Jeff GG On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 3:41 AM Peter Kjellström wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2019 15:36:58 -0400 > Jeffrey Layton wrote: > > > Don't forget that gcc supports both NV and AMD GPUs with OpenACC. > > That's one of the lead compi

Re: [Beowulf] Frontier Announcement

2019-05-09 Thread Jeffrey Layton
> On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 22:57, Jeffrey Layton wrote: > >> I wrote some OpenACC articles for HPC Admin Magazine. A number of >> pro-OpenMP people attacked me on twitter (you know, OpenACC sucks, OpenMP >> is great). I received a private email threatening to kill me and my family

Re: [Beowulf] Frontier Announcement

2019-05-08 Thread Jeffrey Layton
tance, using the same tone as the threatening email, I wondered if that email came from you. On Wed, May 8, 2019, 17:48 Richard Walsh wrote: > > Huh ... ?? Weird, scary ... > > Just MHO. Dropping off this thread now ... > > rbw > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May

Re: [Beowulf] Frontier Announcement

2019-05-08 Thread Jeffrey Layton
whatever Intel comes up with ... why would you write in OpenACC ... ?? > > GNU supports OpenMP too ... in my view, PVM is to MPI as OpenACC is to > OpenMP 4.5-5.0 ... > > Cheers! > > rbw > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 8, 2019, at 2:36 PM, Jeffrey Layton wrote

Re: [Beowulf] Frontier Announcement

2019-05-08 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Don't forget that gcc supports both NV and AMD GPUs with OpenACC. That's one of the lead compilers listed on the Frontier specs. Jeff On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 3:29 PM Richard Walsh wrote: > > All, > > Cray has deprecated support for in OpenACC in light of the OpenMP 4.5 and > 5.0 standards, and

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

2019-03-14 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Damn. I knew I forgot something. Now where are my glasses. On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 17:17 Douglas Eadline wrote: > > > I don't want to interrupt the flow but I'M feeling cheeky. One word can > > solve everything "Fortran". There I said it. > > Of course, but you forgot "now get off my lawn" > > --

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

2019-03-14 Thread Jeffrey Layton
I don't want to interrupt the flow but I'M feeling cheeky. One word can solve everything "Fortran". There I said it. Jeff On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 17:03 Douglas Eadline wrote: > > > Then given we are reaching these limitations how come we don’t > integrate > > certain things from the HPC world

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

2018-10-29 Thread Jeffrey Layton
And don't forget your towel! On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 19:45 Douglas Eadline wrote: > > > In the sage words of Douglas Adams, "Don't Panic" > > My take here: > > > > https://www.clustermonkey.net/Opinions/breathe-easy-the-red-hat-acquisition-by-ibm-was-always-the-goal.html > > > -- > Doug > > > > h

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

2018-10-29 Thread Jeffrey Layton
I hate autocorrect. Get off my lawn! I meant to say you don't want Greg exposing himself. On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 19:04 Jeffrey Layton wrote: > And you don't want agree exposing himself (sorry - had to say it). > > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 12:55 Joe Landman wrote:

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

2018-10-29 Thread Jeffrey Layton
And you don't want agree exposing himself (sorry - had to say it). On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 12:55 Joe Landman wrote: > > On 10/29/18 12:44 PM, David Mathog wrote: > > [...] > > > It turns out that getting up to date compilers and libraries has become > >> quite important for those working on larg

Re: [Beowulf] It is time ...

2018-10-24 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Perhaps. I was thinking liquid consumption... :) Jeff On Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 05:33 Chris Samuel wrote: > On Tuesday, 23 October 2018 9:48:23 PM AEDT Jeffrey Layton wrote: > > > Is there a "consumption game" around the word blockchain? > > Power consumption? >

Re: [Beowulf] It is time ...

2018-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Is there a "consumption game" around the word blockchain? Just checking. On Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 17:50 Douglas Eadline wrote: > > https://beowulfbash.com/ > > And, if your company wants in on the action, let me know > off-list. We have room for more sponsors. The beobash provides > a great way t

Re: [Beowulf] Openlava down?

2017-12-23 Thread Jeffrey Layton
I remember that email. Just curious if things have progressed so Openlava is no longer available. Thanks! Jeff On Dec 23, 2017 6:12 PM, "Joe Landman" wrote: > > > On 12/23/2017 05:49 PM, Jeffrey Layton wrote: > >> I tried it but it doesn't come up as the job

Re: [Beowulf] Openlava down?

2017-12-23 Thread Jeffrey Layton
http://openlava.com/ > > I only get an error on this site: > > http://www.openlava.org/ > > Now, it could well be that these are different sites. > > All the best from London and I wish you all a Merry Christmas! > > Jörg > > > > Am Samstag, 23. Dezemb

[Beowulf] Openlava down?

2017-12-23 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Good afternoon, I've noticed that openlava.org is down and emails to openlava-users at Google groups bounce with a message that the address doesn't exist? Is Openlava still around? Jeff ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin

Re: [Beowulf] Your Raspberry Pi dream comes true

2017-11-16 Thread Jeffrey Layton
I'm going to head to the booth (535?) today. I saw a "rack" or whatever they call it at the DOE booth. Very petite. I love the RPi - really love it. I've built a few small clusters like everyone else. I've built a ClusterHat - really cool simple idea. The RPi 3 has decent speed and the graphics ar

Re: [Beowulf] ancient utilities

2017-10-20 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Pdsh :) The Swiss army knife of cluster tools. Jeff On Oct 20, 2017 4:11 PM, "Andrew Latham" wrote: > http://www.fabfile.org/ > > http://bcfg2.org/ > > https://www.ansible.com/ > > https://github.com/duncs/clusterssh > > and like a thousand more... > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Lux, Jim

Re: [Beowulf] Julia Language

2017-09-19 Thread Jeffrey Layton
John, Have you done much Julia coding? Can you talk about your experience? I have threatened to learn it for a while but your post has prompted me to finally start learning Julia :) Thanks! Jeff On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 7:43 AM, John Hearns via Beowulf < beowulf@beowulf.org> wrote: > I see HP

Re: [Beowulf] Supercomputing comes to the Daily Mail

2017-08-14 Thread Jeffrey Layton
A friend of mine, Mark Fernandez, is the lead engineer on this project. He works for SGI (now HPE). They are putting two servers onto the ISS and are going to be running tests for a while. I don't know too many details except this. Oh! I do know they won't give you SSH access to the servers (alread

Re: [Beowulf] BeeGFS usage question

2017-07-02 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Chris, I've used BeeGFS on AWS before. I was mostly testing the installation procedure and the performance. It's not really persistent storage since I would bring up a cluster, run some tests, and then tear down the cluster. I think the longest I had a cluster running was about 1-2 weeks (I was ru

Re: [Beowulf] Suggestions to what DFS to use

2017-02-14 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Of course there are tons of options depending upon what you want and your IO patterns of the applications. Doug's comments about HDFS are great - he's a very good expert in this area. Depending upon your IO patterns and workload, NFS may work well. I've found it work quite well unless you have a

Re: [Beowulf] clusters of beagles

2017-01-24 Thread Jeffrey Layton
There are lots of people who have built clusters of RPi's and other SBC's. I've got a 5-node RPi2 sitting on my desk next to me. It's fun to play with once in a while :) AFAIK, Warewulf will not work on the RPI series. I've forgotten the exact reason but I think it's because they can't tftp boot.

Re: [Beowulf] HP Enterprise to buy SGI

2016-08-11 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Any opinions or observations Chris? On Aug 11, 2016 7:23 PM, "Christopher Samuel" wrote: > So SGI is getting bought (yet again), this time by HP Enterprise. > > http://investors.sgi.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=984160 > > -- > Christopher SamuelSenior Systems Administrator > VLSCI -

Re: [Beowulf] NFS HPC survey results.

2016-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Thanks Bill and thanks Doug! While the sample size is small there are some interesting things in the data. Just my 2 cents (probably worth alot less than that). - It looks like alot of people are just using Linux Servers and not appliances (perhaps moving toward more of the open-storage model). -

Re: [Beowulf] WORKSHOP: SC16 HPC Systems Pros Mon Nov 14: submissions due Fri Aug 19

2016-06-17 Thread Jeffrey Layton
You have to show your cluster bruises and stitches at the door to get in. On Jun 17, 2016 10:26 AM, "John Hearns" wrote: > Hpcsyspros. I like it.. the gunslingers of the performance computing > world. > Please check your LARTs at the door, gentlemen. > No cussing and no gouging of eyes allow

Re: [Beowulf] Singularity 1.0 is out

2016-05-04 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Chris, You may want to reach out to Greg. He has some pretty serious reservations about Docker and security. He can also tell you a bit more about Shifter since NERSC is so close to him. From what I've read, Shifter can take Docker containers as input and it converts them into something that can r

Re: [Beowulf] Singularity 1.0 is out

2016-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Layton
system > yet, however this would solve one issue for our app developers. i will go > read more about it > > On 17 April 2016 at 16:53, Jeffrey Layton wrote: > >> I just wanted to pile in here a little bit. Singularity is great! I've >> tried to use containers bef

Re: [Beowulf] Singularity 1.0 is out

2016-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Chris, I haven't tested this yet. Unfortunately, I'm away from my CentOS box but I will be back this weekend and can run the test (unless someone else does it first :) ). Thanks! Jeff On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > On 17/0

Re: [Beowulf] Singularity 1.0 is out

2016-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Layton
I just wanted to pile in here a little bit. Singularity is great! I've tried to use containers before but I've found them to be something of a pain in the neck (probably it's just me). But Singularity is very simple to use even with MPI codes! I've run a few sort of "medium level" MPI codes without

Re: [Beowulf] Cluster consistency checks

2016-03-25 Thread Jeffrey Layton
lf cluster based top that shows loads, net, memory but no > application names). > > -- > Doug > > > > > Best regards, > > O-P > > -- > > Olli-Pekka Lehto > > Development Manager > > Computing Platforms > > CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd. &

Re: [Beowulf] Cluster consistency checks

2016-03-22 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Olli-Pekka, Very nice - I'm glad you put a list down. Many of the things that I do are based on experience. A long time ago, in one of my previous jobs, we used to run NAS Parallel Benchmark (NPB) on single nodes to get a baseline of performance. We would look for outliers and triage and debug th

Re: [Beowulf] modern batch management systems

2015-11-10 Thread Jeffrey Layton
I'll join in the fun. I personally like Openlava (www.openlava.org). I've found it to be tremendously easy to install and manage. Plus I like the fail-over features and the performance. Also, it's still being actively developed. Finally, the mailing list is low traffic but there are wonderful peop

Re: [Beowulf] NFS + IB?

2015-02-22 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Dell has been doing some really good things around NFS and IB using IPoIB. Their NSS storage solution is an example. They've gotten some pretty good sequential performance: 2.25 GB/s for writes and 5.48 GB/s for reads. Pretty good performance from a simple NFS server using IPoIB I think. They publ

Re: [Beowulf] Small files

2014-06-12 Thread Jeffrey Layton
Tom, Without digging into the details too much, can you describe the Lustre setup? As Bernd alluded to, it might be something in the configuration or version that is hampering better performance. But then again, you may not want to upgrade to a newer because of disruption. But maybe there are some