Re: [Beowulf] small file systems

2007-08-29 Thread matt jones
isn't have 10 slower 'datawulf' nodes better than 1 at the same speed (with them added up) for data access? surely the optimal speed is a processor that can handle the intensive IO streaming and a kernel + a bit of overhead for good luck. another idea i have floating - with lower speed cpu's

Re: [Beowulf] WD green harddrive, greenwashing?

2007-08-03 Thread matt jones
also - this uses intellipower, intellipark and intelliseek, which are basic things... i doubt these will be of any use in data centers where drives are under constant strain. in an archive systems these, with good power managment and resorce managment, are good things. also - are the figures av

Re: [Beowulf] WD green harddrive, greenwashing?

2007-08-03 Thread matt jones
hi - at home our server we call green. it's not low power. but it is 100% recycled from someone who didn't want it... it's a P2 mobo with a P3 XU02 SLOT it consumes about 28W while under normal net usage. it has 2 HDD's a 20GB 'low' consumption laptop drive - adapted for the 3.5" bay, and

Re: [Beowulf] power usage

2007-07-13 Thread matt jones
Mark Hahn wrote: > wouldn't it be nice to find a PSU which could simply take a 12V input? > battery->inverter->switchingPS->DCelectronics is kind of gross... it's quite conceivable that this would solve problems... but you still have to get from LV AC to ELV DC which will still be inefficient,

Re: [Beowulf] HDTV video file sizes

2007-05-29 Thread matt jones
>Does anyone know who much data 1 hr. of HDTV produces? Let's try 720 for now and perhaps 1080. I'm looking for the file size if you store the whole thing in a single file. >Well, I didn't have any idea ten seconds ago, but now I know that one hour should be roughly 3 GB. (So a movie should

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Linux laptops, and M$ advertisement

2007-04-18 Thread matt jones
mu is equlivent to the term average. indeed in statistics it means the mean. hense why it could be taken ither way. yea and no avereage to give mu. Robert G. Brown wrote: > Actually, technically, Zhaozhou answered "Mu", which doesn't have a > precise meaning in English but approximates as "No

Re: [Beowulf] Ethernet break through? off topic

2007-04-03 Thread matt jones
> > Xboxes make good web servers for small scale. and use less > energy than a > > equivalent Piii or P4 system :-) > > gross. webserving is so easy that tiny embedded chips to a good job, > and something like a via low-power would do a great job. 95% of a game > console would

Re: [Beowulf] Ethernet break through?

2007-04-03 Thread matt jones
you say that, but don't PS2 and PS3 make ideal compute nodes for some applications like rendering and 3D and 4D (time as the 4th) ? a PS3 cluster is already out there somewhere... especially if you take cost into account, a retail PS3 has the processing power (if you can access it) of

[Beowulf] Re: failure trends in a large disk drive population (google fileing system)

2007-02-18 Thread matt jones
i've read in the past somewhere that the Google File System is capable of having many copies of the data. often having 4 copies on different nodes. and as you say run the query to many of them. if one fails there are still 3, if another there are still 2. i've also read somewhere else that if o

Re: [Beowulf] Clusters and Distro Lifespans

2006-07-19 Thread matt jones
Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Jim Lux wrote: > > > And, what I'd really, really like is a small standalone server > (headless) > > that is like a pocket sized network attached disk storage. Like those > > portable drives with a Firewire or USB interface, except with an RJ4

Re: [Beowulf] ram disk - diskless nodes

2006-07-07 Thread matt jones
ou boot from net and then go to local storage, does the RAM used to boot stay off limits to the OS and programs or can it be used for other purposes once booting is done? -- matt jones, ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf

Re: [Beowulf] Airflow

2006-07-06 Thread matt jones
ine fans to route cold air to the cases that are producing the most heat. but that would require some enginearing to do effectivly and some programming of the 25 temp sensors (for each case), 25 power relays, the AC unit controls, fans and integrating with a job manager for the switching on and o

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Yet another type of strange rack rail

2006-07-06 Thread matt jones
ard rack > mount'. > > -- > Leif Nixon -Systems expert > > National Supercomputer Centre - Linkoping University > -

[Beowulf] ram disk - diskless nodes

2006-07-06 Thread matt jones
that the admin can work from. -- matt jones, this e-mail has been virus scanned, sent from a workstation called: matts, IP address: 10.64.63.17, Subnet Mask: 255.255.192.1 ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription

Re: [Beowulf] shared memory versus MPI and bootless boot

2006-07-06 Thread matt jones
in this for a 100Mbps hub you would get 10.24 seconds per node. so assuming that you dont have any more than one node failing every 11 seconds.. a 100Mbps hub would do adequately. -- matt jones, this e-mail has been virus scanned, sent from a workstation

Re: [Beowulf] MS HPC... Oh dear...

2006-06-14 Thread matt jones
ewulfs were high cost finatually to sart out-in... more of high in needs of time to sit, configure and play around with and get used to. -- matt jones, ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubsc

Re: [Beowulf] MS HPC... Oh dear...

2006-06-13 Thread matt jones
depends on how you use it. -- matt jones, this e-mail has been virus scanned, sent from a workstation called: matts, IP address: 10.64.63.17, Subnet Mask: 255.255.192.1 ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest

[Beowulf] Re: clusters in high schools.

2006-02-01 Thread matt jones
want the motherboards, memory and hard drives for the project... and i need to find a proper use for the cluster nce it's going, any ideas anyone??? matt jones, 15, YR. 11 student at a normal comprehensive school. Bill Harman wrote: > One of the things that you can do to get things

[Beowulf] Re: clusters in high schools.

2006-01-27 Thread matt jones
e those 1 to 10 of us might get the help we need to actually build and maintain a cluster. which i suppose would benefit the other students as they could run models through it. matt jones, 15, YR. 11 student at a normal comprehensive school. ps* can anyone advise me to a guide for starting a