Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-03-08 Thread Skylar Thompson
Thanks for the report back! The color-coding is a nifty idea. Skylar On 03/07/2016 08:44 AM, Olli-Pekka Lehto wrote: > First iteration of the mini-cluster is now in production. Some takeaways and > observations: > > We did the first deployment of the mini-cluster, called "Sisunen" last weekend >

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-03-07 Thread Olli-Pekka Lehto
spond. Any demo code should ideally have support for these. O-P - Original Message - > From: "Olli-Pekka Lehto" > To: beowulf@beowulf.org > Sent: Monday, 1 February, 2016 17:57:30 > Subject: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas > We're in the process of developing

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-08 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
On 2/5/16, 9:58 AM, "Douglas Eadline" wrote: > >> What I find interesting about this is that there's only a 3:1 difference >> between high and low. >> >> That's a pretty compelling argument that if you need a 10x speedup, >>you're >> not going to get it by "buy a faster computer", and that, rat

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-05 Thread Douglas Eadline
ulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Douglas > Eadline > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 6:58 AM > To: Olli-Pekka Lehto > Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas > > > To help gauge your performance, you can find HPL results for my Limu

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-04 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
Jim -Original Message- From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Eadline Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 6:58 AM To: Olli-Pekka Lehto Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas To help gauge your performance, you can find H

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-03 Thread Douglas Eadline
-- Doug > > Best regards, > O-P > > - Original Message - >> From: "Skylar Thompson" >> To: beowulf@beowulf.org, "olli-pekka lehto" >> Sent: Tuesday, 2 February, 2016 03:36:00 >> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas > >&

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-02 Thread Olli-Pekka Lehto
- Original Message - > From: "Skylar Thompson" > To: beowulf@beowulf.org, "olli-pekka lehto" > Sent: Tuesday, 2 February, 2016 03:36:00 > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas > Hi Olli-Pekka, > > When we have LittleFe (http://littlefe.net) out

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-01 Thread Skylar Thompson
Hi Olli-Pekka, When we have LittleFe (http://littlefe.net) out in the wild (which sounds a lot like what you're trying to do!), GalaxSee and Game of Life are two favorites: http://shodor.org/petascale/materials/UPModules/NBody/ http://shodor.org/petascale/materials/UPModules/GameOfLife/ They're

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-01 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
What is useful is to have several demos that have varying degrees of parallelism (or more properly, more degrees of embarrassing). For instance, if you¹re doing a render farm for frames, and you farm out frame 1,11,21, etc to node 1, 2,12,22 to node 2, etc. Parallel POVray is similar: each proces

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-01 Thread Douglas Eadline
> - Original Message - >> From: "Douglas Eadline" >> To: "doug lattman" >> Cc: "olli-pekka lehto" , beowulf@beowulf.org >> Sent: Monday, 1 February, 2016 19:12:21 >> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas > >>

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-01 Thread Olli-Pekka Lehto
- Original Message - > From: "Douglas Eadline" > To: "doug lattman" > Cc: "olli-pekka lehto" , beowulf@beowulf.org > Sent: Monday, 1 February, 2016 19:12:21 > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas >> What about Broadcom ethernet ch

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-01 Thread Douglas Eadline
oug > > -Original Message- > From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Douglas > Eadline > Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 11:43 AM > To: Olli-Pekka Lehto > Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas > > > If you want to

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-01 Thread doug.lattman
What about Broadcom ethernet chips? -Original Message- From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Eadline Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 11:43 AM To: Olli-Pekka Lehto Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas If you want to try and

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-01 Thread Douglas Eadline
If you want to try and pull real performance out of any i7 based SFF boards, pay close attention to the Ethernet chipset (avoid Realtek, seek Intel) -- Doug > We're in the process of developing a demo Beowulf cluster in the spirit of > Tiny Titan (http://tinytitan.github.io/). However, the one

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-01 Thread John Hearns
@beowulf.org Subject: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas We're in the process of developing a demo Beowulf cluster in the spirit of Tiny Titan (http://tinytitan.github.io/). However, the one we are working on is based on 10 Intel i7 small-form-factor boards with a fairly good per-core compute capab

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-01 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Olli-Pekka, Look up a parallel Mandelbrot fractal generator. I remember doing one as a homework assignment in college. Very visual way of showing the performance improvement of adding more cores. Prentice On 02/01/2016 10:57 AM, Olli-Pekka Lehto wrote: We're in the process of developing a d

[Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-02-01 Thread Olli-Pekka Lehto
We're in the process of developing a demo Beowulf cluster in the spirit of Tiny Titan (http://tinytitan.github.io/). However, the one we are working on is based on 10 Intel i7 small-form-factor boards with a fairly good per-core compute capability. I'd be interested to hear if you have some ide