Re: [Beowulf] OT: public random numbers?

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Cousins
Hi David, Can you give us more information about what you are doing? I'm getting curious about what problem you are working with that requires these conditions. Steve > We have not discussed election results (votes per candidate), but those > are, ironically, really unsuitable for this, even

Re: [Beowulf] HP 10 GbE card use/warranty

2010-03-30 Thread Steve Cousins
came up with, we hope, information that will prove to HP >> that the card is under warranty. It was ordered through Synnex and the >> order numbers are 24927045 and 26715052. They shipped from Synnex on >> March 20, 2008. >> >> Part# 414129-B21 (they ordered a qty of 3) >>

Re: [Beowulf] HP 10 GbE card use/warranty

2010-03-30 Thread Steve Cousins
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Steve Cousins writes: I have a couple of 10 GbE cards from HP (NC510F, NetXen/QLogic) and I have been trying to get them to work in non-HP Linux systems. After failing to be able to comile/install the nx_nic drivers on Fedora 9 and 12 (it checks

[Beowulf] HP 10 GbE card use/warranty

2010-03-29 Thread Steve Cousins
equipment? Any tips on getting an RMA for this? I'm thinking of trying to track down an HP server on campus to work with just to get the RMA but I doubt if there are too many of these that aren't in use and still under warranty. Thanks, Steve ___

[Beowulf] Re: A question about antique hardware

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Cousins
Gus Correa wrote: Dear Beowulfers Did anybody ever get Gigabit Ethernet NICs to work on the Tyan Tiger S2466-4M motherboards under Linux? Hi Gus, I have a S2466 Tiger MPX board that has been running for years with a copper Intel Pro/1000 MT NIC (82540EM) without trouble. The onboard 3Com

[Beowulf] ISO-8859-1?Q? about_?= my I/O

2009-09-28 Thread Steve Cousins
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Rahul Nabar wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Steve Cousins wrote: One thing to try with bonnie++ is to run multiple instances at the same time. For our tests, one single instance of bonnie showed 560 MB/sec writes and 524 MB/sec reads. Going to 4 instances at the

[Beowulf] posting bonnie++ stats from our cluster: any comments about my I/O performance stats?

2009-09-25 Thread Steve Cousins
Hi Rahul, I went through a fair amount of work with this sort of thing (specifying performance and then getting the vendor to bring it up to expectations when performance didn't come close) and I was happiest with Bonnie++ in terms of simplicity of use and the range of stats you get. I haven'

[Beowulf] Anybody going with AMD Istanbul 6-core CPU's?

2009-08-20 Thread Steve Cousins
I haven't seen anybody here talking about the 6-core AMD CPU's yet. Is anybody trying these out? Anybody have real-world comparisons (say WRF) of scalability of a 12-core system vs. a 16 thread Nehalem system? Thanks, Steve ___ Beowulf mailing lis

Re: [Beowulf] Odd AMD quad core SuperMicro power off issues

2009-07-06 Thread Steve Cousins
- "Chris Samuel" wrote: The compute nodes are using SuperMicro H8DM8-2 based with 32GB of ECC RAM. Hi Chris, I had MCE crashes on a Supermicro system (quad Xeon quad-core 2.4 Ghz) that was driving me nuts for quite a while. It would take a couple of months to crash which doesn't soun

[Beowulf] Re:UPS system for Linux cluster

2009-04-30 Thread Steve Cousins
David Mathog wrote: Do you really need a UPS for the whole cluster? In many instances it is good enough to put a UPS on the master node and just use surge suppressors on the compute nodes. The up side being that only a small and relatively inexpensive UPS is required. The down side being of

Re: [Beowulf] Not sure if people have seen it yet, but 2TB ...

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Cousins
Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:02:22 -0600 Gerry Creager wrote: Have had some first hand experience with 1.5TB drives. I'll not go down that path again for some time. Seagate didn't yet gifure out how to make them reliable. Hi Gerry, What problems did you have? I have 16 of these in an array (Areca

[Beowulf] Re: OT: LTO Ultrium (3) throughput?

2008-07-06 Thread Steve Cousins
From: "Jon Aquilina" this is slightly off topic but im just wondering why spend thousands of dollars when u can just setup another server and backup everything to a raided hard drive array? Another RAID system helps but only if it is located somewhere else. The main reason we backup is for

[Beowulf] Re: OT: LTO Ultrium (3) throughput? (Steve Cousins)

2008-07-02 Thread Steve Cousins
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, David Mathog wrote: Steve Cousins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do different LTO-3 drives have different maximum tape write speeds? I don't know. I've always heard 80 MB/sec. lto.org shows: http://www.lto.org/technology/ugen.php?section=0&subsec=ug

[Beowulf] Re: OT: LTO Ultrium (3) throughput?

2008-07-02 Thread Steve Cousins
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, David Mathog wrote: Rats. I wonder what the difference is now? If you don't already have it, please grab a copy of Exabyte's ltoTool from here: http://www.exabyte.com/support/online/downloads/downloads.cfm?did=1344&prod_id=581 % /usr/local/src/ltotool/ltoTool -C 1 /dev/n

[Beowulf] Re: OT: LTO Ultrium (3) throughput?

2008-07-02 Thread Steve Cousins
) copied, 69.2487 seconds, 77.5 MB/s I used a 512K block size because that is what I use with our backups and it has given optimal performance since the DLT-7000 days. Good luck, Steve __ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling Group

Re: [Beowulf] SiCortex experience anyone?

2008-05-27 Thread Steve Cousins
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Mark Hahn wrote: Does anyone have any experience with SiCortex machines? Any thoughts? They look cool and they don't use much power but I wonder how they compare to blade type systems. eh? blade systems are just tweaks for packaging and cable-management. I don't believ

[Beowulf] Re: visualization machine (Ricardo Reis)

2008-03-27 Thread Steve Cousins
with a customized version of Vis5D. Steve ______ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling GroupEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marine Sciences, 452 Aubert Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME

[Beowulf] 10 GbE vs. Trunked 1 GbE performance?

2007-07-03 Thread Steve Cousins
hanks, Steve -- __ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling GroupEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marine Sciences, 452 Aubert Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469Phone: (207) 581

Re: [Beowulf] High performance storage with GbE?

2006-12-14 Thread Steve Cousins
Thanks Bill. This is really helpful. On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Bill Broadley wrote: What do you expect the I/O's to look like? Large file read/writes? Zillions of small reads/writes? To one file or directory or maybe to a file or directory per compute node? We are basing our specs on large fi

[Beowulf] Re: High performance storage with GbE?

2006-12-14 Thread Steve Cousins
Bill Broadley wrote: Sorry all, my math was a bit off (thanks Mike and others). To be clearer: * $24k or so per pair of servers and a pair of 15*750GB arrays * The pair has 16.4TB usable (without the normal 5% reserved by the filesystem) * The pair has 20.5TB raw (counting disks use for spa

[Beowulf] High performance storage with GbE?

2006-12-12 Thread Steve Cousins
ks, Steve __ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling GroupEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marine Sciences, 452 Aubert Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469Phone: (207) 581-4302 ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org

Re: [Beowulf] Looking for external RAID vendors

2006-09-28 Thread cousins
hem. We have two with 400GB Hitachi drives and one with 750GB Seagate drives. Partners Data is very easy to work with and they have very good prices. Steve -- ______ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling GroupEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] M

[Beowulf] RE: ssh without password for non root user in RedHat Enterprise Linux 3

2006-02-03 Thread Steve Cousins
(of course). Good luck, Steve ______ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling GroupEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marine Sciences, 452 Aubert Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469Phone: (207) 581-4302