Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-04-16 Thread Warren Turkal
./configure && > make" approach, and at least in the cases I've seen, cmake doesn't do this. Cmake does allow configuration. You can set the variables interactively or at the command line a la configure. This happens when you run the

Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-04-16 Thread Warren Turkal
On Monday 16 April 2007 10:18, Mark Hahn wrote: > opinion: cmake is precisely the same sort of > ingrown-project-creates-own-tool-badly as aimk. Could you please expand on that a bit? I find to be a pretty good tool. wt -- Warren Turkal ___ B

Re: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

2007-04-16 Thread Warren Turkal
On Monday 16 April 2007 06:32, Reuti wrote: > or cmake - does anyone use it here - opinions? > > http://www.cmake.org/ If you are familiar with the plplot library, they use it. wt -- Warren Turkal ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowu

Re: [Beowulf] network filesystem

2007-03-06 Thread Warren Turkal
y systems? I didn't think the md device was cluster aware. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change you

Re: [Beowulf] network filesystem

2007-03-06 Thread Warren Turkal
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 08:58, Robert Latham wrote: > I know I beat this drum a lot, but do consider a true parallel file > system like PVFS for your MPI-IO applications.   GPFS and Luster would > be good options too.   What about OCFS2? Do you know anything about it? wt -- Warr

Re: [Beowulf] network filesystem

2007-03-04 Thread Warren Turkal
On Saturday 03 March 2007 23:39, Chris Samuel wrote: > How stable/usable is the Linux NFSv4 implementation these days ? It sucks if you are using CentOS 4.x. With Debian Etch, it seems work pretty well. wt -- Warren Turkal ___ Beowulf mailing l

Re: [Beowulf] OCFS2 on HPC clusters ?

2006-10-26 Thread Warren Turkal
n OCFS2 FS over NFS. I am running NFSv3. However, it does seem to work. wt -- Warren Turkal ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf

Re: [Beowulf] Stress / torture test cluster hardware

2006-10-07 Thread Warren Turkal
rs, articles, proceedings, tools... concerning > this topic beside the ones below? Stresslinux appears to be state-of-the-art on this subject for the time being. wt -- Warren Turkal ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription

Re: [Beowulf] Ineternet cluster

2006-09-30 Thread Warren Turkal
builds are not required to keep up with the flow of even massive bodies of software, like the archive that makes up Debian, for instance. According to the Debian home page, Debian contains 15490 binary packages. [1] http://www.buildd.net/cgi/all_ETA.cgi Ciao, wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Assoc

Re: [Beowulf] Looking for external RAID vendors

2006-09-27 Thread Warren Turkal
r hacker could probably pull it off considering that they use the rc shell as their command shell. If they had a TCP/IP stack, it would be able to send SNMP traps and even present an http interface. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University,

Re: [Beowulf] Looking for external RAID vendors

2006-09-27 Thread Warren Turkal
ll supported in Linux. Coraid developed the aoe module for the most part. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your

Re: [Beowulf] Looking for external RAID vendors

2006-09-26 Thread Warren Turkal
at needs to be > as plug-and-play as possible. Coraid makes some really nice devices that are well supported under Linux. We have two of the SR1520s here. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept.

[Beowulf] layer 3 switches

2006-09-21 Thread Warren Turkal
Does a layer 3 switch make sense on a Beowulf cluster running on GigE? If so, does anyone have any recommendations? wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science ___ Beowulf

Re: [Beowulf] NCSU and FORTRAN

2006-09-07 Thread Warren Turkal
etty well here. I have at least one scientist that uses it as his only compiler at this time. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@

[Beowulf] torque/maui and HA

2006-05-19 Thread Warren Turkal
for the hostname of the system? For instance, if my system is called foo0 and the failover ip is on foo_p, how would I make Maui only listen on the ip associated with foo_p even though foo0 is the name returned when running hostname? wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems

Re: Large FOSS filesystems, was Re: [Beowulf] 512 nodes Myrinet cluster Challanges

2006-05-05 Thread Warren Turkal
AN over ethernet. It even supports be connected and driven by more than one computer at once, and it's block level storage. If you have a cluster running kernel 2.6.16, you could try OCFS2. When Debian Etch upgrades to kernel 2.6.16, I will probably start messing with it. wt -- Warren

Re: Large FOSS filesystems, was Re: [Beowulf] 512 nodes Myrinet cluster Challanges

2006-05-04 Thread Warren Turkal
be shipping with the kernel, which is where the best quality drivers tend to be shipped. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.or

Re: Large FOSS filesystems, was Re: [Beowulf] 512 nodes Myrinet cluster Challanges

2006-05-04 Thread Warren Turkal
that. You might check out EVMS. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubs

[Beowulf] ocfs2

2006-05-04 Thread Warren Turkal
Has anyone here done any experimenting with OCFS2? I am wondering if it is performant enough to replace NFS. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science ___ Beowulf mailing

[Beowulf] maui and uids

2006-04-28 Thread Warren Turkal
Is there any way to make maui run with a 100 < uid < 1000? wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To chang

Re: [Beowulf] (no subject)

2006-04-24 Thread Warren Turkal
On Friday 21 April 2006 10:35, sámson gábor wrote: > please help my where can i download beowulf ? > thanks , Gabor Samson Technically speaking, beowulf is more of a concept than a product. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, De

Re: [Beowulf] Re: multiport RS232 to ethernet (or USB)

2006-04-10 Thread Warren Turkal
ight? So what'cha plugging into these contraptions? I am thinking they are probably using serial terminals for monitoring or something like that. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept.

[Beowulf] pbs_sched on multihomed system

2006-03-31 Thread Warren Turkal
Is there a way to specify to which IP pbs_sched should bind? It seems to bind to the IP associated with the hostname of the system, by default. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science

Re: [Beowulf] distributions

2006-02-01 Thread Warren Turkal
ng Fedora. I was using it as an example because it is easier than saying RHEL4 or CentOS4 or Debian Sarge. I am actually looking to migrate the cluster to something Debian based here in the near future. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheri

[Beowulf] 32/64 bit

2006-02-01 Thread Warren Turkal
Does SGE make is possible to partition off the cluster into nodes that are capable of 32/64 bit and nodes that are only capable of 32 bit? I would like to have 32 bit apps run on all nodes and 64 bit apps only run on the 64-bit capable nodes. Thanks, wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate

[Beowulf] distributions

2006-01-27 Thread Warren Turkal
Is it ok to mix linux distributions when building a cluster? I am wondering for migration purposes. For instance, it the current cluster had FC2 and I wanted to move to FC3, would it be okay to install new nodes as FC3 and gradually migrate? wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III