Re: [Beowulf] Best Way to Use 48-cores For Undergrad Cluster?

2010-05-14 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 8:41pm -0400 Thu, 06 May 2010, Jon Forrest wrote: > I see you can now get 48-cores in one 1U box. What do you think > about running all the compute nodes as 1-core virtual machines on > the one box? Or, would you just run the machine with one OS and a > SGE queue with 47 slots (with 1 core f

Re: [Beowulf] 96 cores in silent and small enclosure

2010-04-08 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 12:57am -0400 Thu, 08 Apr 2010, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > i know there is non conductive water which if it gets on > something shouldnt conduct electricity but how safe is a > water cooled system? As regards non-conductive water, you're correct: *pure* water has a very high resistivity, some

Re: [Beowulf] Sidebar: Vista Rant

2007-08-01 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 7:16p -0400 on 19 Jul 2007, Chris Samuel wrote: >> Mind you, MySQL is perfectly capable of corrupting its own data >> without relying on rare hardware and power failures to blame for it. > > We have never found that, but should you come across it I would > suggest filing a bug report so it ca