Re: [Beowulf] AMD 6100 vs Intel 5600

2010-04-17 Thread Tiago Marques
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Jerker Nyberg wrote: > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > > My experience is that in HPC it always boils down to price/performance and >> that would in my eyes make apples out of Magnycour and Westmere. >> > > I just ordered two desktop systems with Int

Re: [Beowulf] bizarre scaling behavior on a Nehalem

2009-11-10 Thread Tiago Marques
d the load balancing the code would inevitably mis-schedule and the code would end up running with only 5 cores(or from start) and calculations would take around 10x longer. This was only useful in 6 cores per node, as then each processor would be running precisely 3 threads. With eight I haven&#x

Re: [Beowulf] Home Beowulf

2009-10-10 Thread Tiago Marques
Hi, I've run some tests with an i7 920 and OCZ DDR-1600 CAS7 and the results were very good for bandwidth friendly benchmarks and I definitely recommend you to stay away from the usual stock memory of ddr3-1...@cas9. About performance with CFD I have no idea. VASP liked particularly of the extra b

Re: [Beowulf] XEON power variations

2009-10-04 Thread Tiago Marques
slightly) higher degree of thoroughness, hence the 60-80-95-130 grades and not just 65-95-130 grades as in desktops. Best regards, Tiago Marques > > Thanks, > Tom Rockwell > ___ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by

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

2009-10-03 Thread Tiago Marques
network. They only basically go load the executable file and shared libraries at the start of a job and that's it. I can provide the scrips I have set up to do this if you want to take a look at them. Best regards, Tiago Marques On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > On Thu

[Beowulf] Nvidia FERMI/gt300 GPU

2009-10-03 Thread Tiago Marques
frequently shutdown. It remains to be seen what they will do with Firestream cards, as for that I known not if it happens. It will if they quote similar TDPs. Best regards, Tiago Marques > ___ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf

[Beowulf] Torque user quotas

2009-07-01 Thread Tiago Marques
han others to the cluster, hence should be entitled to a fair usage scenario. This is likely to remain for a good amount of time and automation of the quotas would be ideal. Is there any kind of solution that provides this sort of behaviour, even if only

Re: Re[2]: [Beowulf] recommendations for cluster upgrades

2009-05-17 Thread Tiago Marques
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Jan Heichler wrote: > Hallo Tiago, > > > Sonntag, 17. Mai 2009, meintest Du: > > > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: > > > One of the

Re: [Beowulf] recommendations for cluster upgrades

2009-05-16 Thread Tiago Marques
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: > > One of the codes, VASP, is very bandwidth limited and loves to run in a > > number of cores multiple of 3. The 5400s are also very bandwith - memory > and >

Re: [Beowulf] recommendations for cluster upgrades

2009-05-16 Thread Tiago Marques
;. Still, if you can upgrade to Shangai cpus, it may be a better deal than switching all to Nehalem. Best regards, Tiago Marques On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > I'm currently shopping around for a cluster-expansion and was shopping > for options. Anybod

Re: [Beowulf] newbie

2009-04-22 Thread Tiago Marques
ng it that way with no legal problems - I even talked to it's representative yesterday. Best regards, Tiago Marques CICECO University of Aveiro On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Gerry Creager wrote: > Having read what the license itself says, I tend to agree with the position > asserte

Re: [Beowulf] Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-21 Thread Tiago Marques
Thanks. No mention of VirtualBox there, it would be a shame if they start charging for it now :-( Best regards On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Chris Samuel wrote: > > - "Tiago Marques" wrote: > > > Except when it comes to RDBMS. > > Allegedly.. > > #

Re: [Beowulf] Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-20 Thread Tiago Marques
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Tiago Marques wrote: > > and Sun have been natural competitors for years; Oracle and Sun have >> been natural partners. >> >> Except when it comes to RDBMS. >> > > Aw, I'm

Re: [Beowulf] Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-20 Thread Tiago Marques
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Chris Dagdigian wrote: > > >> It's official: >> http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp >> >> -Chris >> > > Guess that means Oracle is no longer looking at Red Hat...;-) > > Maybe IBM will turn around an

Re: [Beowulf] FPU performance of Intel CPUs

2009-04-06 Thread Tiago Marques
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: > > I'll get an answer: is there any remarkable difference in FPU performance between Extreme and non-Extreme Intel CPUs, e.g. QX9650 and Q9650? >>> >>> of course not - the chips are the same inside, so deliver >>> exactly the perf

Re: [Beowulf] FPU performance of Intel CPUs

2009-04-05 Thread Tiago Marques
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: > Definitely, it's a non-cluster question, but may be >> I'll get an answer: is there any remarkable difference >> in FPU performance between Extreme and non-Extreme >> Intel CPUs, e.g. QX9650 and Q9650? >> > > of course not - the chips are the sam

Re: [Beowulf] Interesting google server design

2009-04-04 Thread Tiago Marques
ntake not of 20-25ºC but of 35-40ºC. No PSU can handle this kind of temperature silently. It's manageable in winter but a problem in summer, when PSUs should not intake air at more than 50ºC or it will exhibit sub-optimal power delivery. Also, the separate air-channel usually serves HDDs and PSU

Re: [Beowulf] Nehalem Xeons 55** series

2009-02-23 Thread Tiago Marques
n't have a sense for whether Goto's > kind of tuning (beyond the ability of compilers, and relatively > cache-friendly relative to flops) is terribly relevant to the market. It's even worse for AMD in some other areas. Take a look at this: http://it.anandtech.com/weblog/

Re: [Beowulf] Nehalem Xeons 55** series

2009-02-22 Thread Tiago Marques
a Core i7 but should give you an idea. Best regards, Tiago Marques On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Ivan Oleynik wrote: > Does someone know whether Intel has already started shipping Nehalem Xeon > 55** processors? Are there system integrators that have Nehalem

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Problems scaling performance to more than one node, GbE

2009-02-21 Thread Tiago Marques
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Mike Davis wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Tiago Marques wrote: >> >> I must ask, doesn't anybody on this list run like 16 cores on two nodes >>> well, for a code and job that completes like in a week? >>> >> For

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Problems scaling performance to more than one node, GbE

2009-02-16 Thread Tiago Marques
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:43 PM, David Mathog wrote: > Tiago Marques > > > > I've been trying to get the best performance on a small cluster we > have here > > at University of Aveiro, Portugal, but I've not been enable to get most > > software to sca

Re: [Beowulf] Problems scaling performance to more than one node, GbE

2009-02-16 Thread Tiago Marques
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:49 PM, John Hearns wrote: > 2009/2/13 Tiago Marques : > > > > As for software, I'm using Gentoo Linux, ICC/IFC/GotoBLAS, tried > scalapack > > with no benefit, OpenMPI and Torque, running in x86-64 mode. > > > > Pallas/PMB,

Re: [Beowulf] Problems scaling performance to more than one node, GbE

2009-02-16 Thread Tiago Marques
; measure latency, but the experts on this list will probably tell you more > about the subjest that you'd ever wished to know ;-) > > Ok, thanks! Much appreciated. Best regards, Tiago Marques > Nicholas > > -- > > > Dr

[Beowulf] Problems scaling performance to more than one node, GbE

2009-02-13 Thread Tiago Marques
6 cores, which seems to be a bandwidth problem due to the FSB used in Xeons, but the other software behaves quite well. As for software, I'm using Gentoo Linux, ICC/IFC/GotoBLAS, tried scalapack with no benefit, OpenMPI and Torque, running in x86-64 mode. Any help wi