Re: [Beowulf] massive parallel processing application, required

G'day Jim and all Two interesting space examples would be the original Viking lander pics. The story goes that they were in such a rush to get the images to the press conference that they 'made the sky blue and the ground red'. Later, more careful analysis showed the sky a more dusty pink/bro

[Beowulf] An OT patented rgb editorial rant

G'day RGB and all I draw great comfort from another lesson that history has taught us: all empires crumble. All those previous empires also looked invincible. Sure, some last longer than others but they all ultimately suffer the same fate. Here's a thought, has Microsoft's dominance been s

[Beowulf] Stats based cluster monitoring tool: OVIS

G'day Great Minds Collective Just came across this via LWN. Apologies if this turns out to be a duplicate. https://ovis.ca.sandia.gov/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page I wish I had enough nodes for it to be readily applicable ;) Cheers Stevo ___ Beowul

[Beowulf] RAID for dummies

Came across this :) http://www.epidauros.be/raid.jpg I'm sure we can pick faults in the analogy... seeing most 'wulf keepers have a decent physics background but hey. Fun pic :) Cheers Stevo ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change yo

Re: no 'commodity' OS is 'secure' Re: [Beowulf] Which distro for the cluster?

G'day all I agree with Andrew et al. Having spent a short sentence inside a major financial institution's security section I just thought I'd add a bit more. They don't run Linux for *anything* related to security (although it's starting to do well elsewhere). Everything is from 'major softw

[Beowulf] Beowulf analogy for a classroom

G'day all I'll skip the background as to 'why' but I've recently been working on a way to explain the Beowulf concept to a classroom of school kids. No computers required. I think I've come up with a useful analogy/experiment that might work. I've posted it here on the off chance that someon