Re: [Beowulf] Teaching Scientific Computation (looking for the perfect text)

2007-11-20 Thread Michael Jinks
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:33:43PM -0600, Nathan Moore wrote: > I regularly teach a college course in a physics department that deals with > scientific computation. After students take the course, I expect that > they'll be able to write simple "c-tran" style programs for data analysis, > write ba

Re: [Beowulf] small-footprint MS WIn "MinWin"

2007-10-26 Thread Michael Jinks
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:35:40PM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > Redoing the core kernel and obsoleting the knowledge of > a whole generation of MCSEs is another huge risk, one that has cost big > companies major market share in years past, since if you have to retrain > in mid-career (when co

Re: [Beowulf] [AMD64] Gentoo or Fedora

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Jinks
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:28:43PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > >track down -- that it's not precisely correct to think of Gentoo as a > >distribution. Rather, it's a set of tools and a software index which > >provide the opportunity to create one's own distribution. The article > > I'm being pedan

Re: [Beowulf] [AMD64] Gentoo or Fedora

2007-08-31 Thread Michael Jinks
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:10:43AM -0500, Juan Camilo Hernandez wrote: > > I want to ask what kind of experiencies do you has in the > implementation of a beowulf cluster (using Gentoo or Fedora in AMD64 > architectures) for metheorological applications and wich one of the > distros do you recomme