Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:59:41PM +0200, Jon Tegner wrote: > Robert G. Brown wrote: >> Fedora installs in the future will be done by yum. Yum enables >> something that is truly marvelous for people who have to install through >

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-18 Thread LUK ShunTim
Tim Cutts wrote: On 18-Oct-07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, didn't know about the preseeding method. Also, there seems to be a kickstart, at least for ubuntu. Has anyone compared FAI to kickstart (for ubuntu/debian)? [snipped] http://drbl.sourceforge.net/ From the website: "Peacefully

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-18 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Bogdan Costescu wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Robert G. Brown wrote: but on highly INhomogeneous hardware, slow and undependable networks, and the like -- if it dies This discussion being on the beowulf list, I can agree with kickstart being used on INhomogenous hardware,

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-18 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Robert G. Brown wrote: but on highly INhomogeneous hardware, slow and undependable networks, and the like -- if it dies This discussion being on the beowulf list, I can agree with kickstart being used on INhomogenous hardware, but not on slow and undependable networks; h

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-18 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Tim Cutts wrote: The real killer advantages of FAI, for me, are the SSH server so I can monitor the install remotely, and the detailed logging. Both of these are invaluable for diagnosing installation problems. With kickstart, you can start a VNC connection, check out: h

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-18 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Tim Cutts wrote: The real killer advantages of FAI, for me, are the SSH server so I can monitor the install remotely, and the detailed logging. Both of these are invaluable for diagnosing installation problems. They certainly do sound useful, I agree. I'm hoping that if

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-18 Thread Tim Cutts
On 18-Oct-07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, didn't know about the preseeding method. Also, there seems to be a > kickstart, at least for ubuntu. Has anyone compared FAI to kickstart (for > ubuntu/debian)? The fundamental approach is rather different. As I understand it, kickstart basically r

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-18 Thread tegner
> Debian/Ubuntu both have automated install methods. There's the > 'preseeding' method, which is pretty similar in principle to > kickstart; you just tell the installer where to find all the answers > to the questions it would have asked. > > There's also the more flexible FAI, which is what we te

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Tim Cutts
On 17 Oct 2007, at 6:50 pm, Jon Tegner wrote: Drifting off a bit further, but as I see it, the biggest advantage of FC over debien/ubuntu is kickstart. Or??? Debian/Ubuntu both have automated install methods. There's the 'preseeding' method, which is pretty similar in principle to kicks

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Travis
Robert G. Brown wrote: [...] If I had my druthers, we (the Linux community) would work towards a unified packaging scheme, a nice binary standard, a common /etc layout (ideally one that converts a lot of /etc files from flat to xml, since flatfiles suck for the specification for slowly varying ex

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Jon Tegner
Robert G. Brown wrote: Fedora installs in the future will be done by yum. Yum enables something that is truly marvelous for people who have to install through thin pipes (e.g. DSL links): a two stage interruptable install. It is possible to install a barebones system in the first pass in a rela

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread James Cownie
On 17 Oct 2007, at 16:20, Robert G. Brown wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Gerry Creager wrote: Quote... "Three things in life a man must do, Before his days are done. Write two lines of APL... And make the sucker run." OK, so it's not PL-I but APL was another interesting beast. A friend had w

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Peter St. John
I think of it as "ed (as 'ex') is still critical as a part of vi (as 'gvim')". Peter On 10/16/07, Dale Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007-10-16 at 10:39, Joe Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > elucidated: > > > > I have heard (or am spreading) the rumor that the 1-18-08 movie is not > > rea

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Ellis Wilson wrote: Wow, PL-I, I'm learning about that in my language design class. While it brought a bunch of new items to the computing field, can't say I'm upset I didn't code in it :). Sorry guys, I came into existence just about the time the internet was opened up

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Jon Tegner wrote: Drifting off a bit further, but as I see it, the biggest advantage of FC over debien/ubuntu is kickstart. Or??? I don't know if that question has an easy answer. Kickstart is certainly AN advantage in certain environments, but Debian will install automag

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Peter St. John
Yes indeed it's fascinating, and I could write all day about what I **did** do (in 92 ish?) but which was already obseleted by porting to a platform with a better ("vetted by randomness geeks") library. But I think the idea ("hmmm") was that the bit of paper fluttering down from the keypunch to th

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Dale Harris
On 2007-10-16 at 10:39, Joe Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> elucidated: > > I have heard (or am spreading) the rumor that the 1-18-08 movie is not > really a monster movie, but the final epic battle between vi and emacs ... > An old coworker of mine would probably like me to put in good and sarcast

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Jon Tegner
Drifting off a bit further, but as I see it, the biggest advantage of FC over debien/ubuntu is kickstart. Or??? /jon Robert G. Brown wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, andrew holway wrote: Apt-cache with a bit of grep is a powerful tool indeed. $apt-cache search foo | grep bar everyone I work wit

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Ellis Wilson
Wow, PL-I, I'm learning about that in my language design class. While it brought a bunch of new items to the computing field, can't say I'm upset I didn't code in it :). Sorry guys, I came into existence just about the time the internet was opened up from just NSF to commercial interest, so pu

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Eric Thibodeau
Of course, this is valid given so many people use the kernel build time as a benchmark ;) Heck! It's even used as a filesystem performance benchmark! Eric Joe Landman wrote: > andrew holway wrote: >> And the winner of the 2007 Parallel Development Tools Award is... > > make -j16 ... > > (

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread stephen mulcahy
Tim Cutts wrote: I've been reading the aptitude documentation this morning, as it happens, and there's all sorts of useful stuff it can do above what apt-cache could manage, and it's solved a number of long-standing problems I've had... in particular its search functionality is *much* impro

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Jon Tegner
You should switch to a .deb-system, to save you some trouble: $ apt-cache search jove jove - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful editor Sorry, couldn't resist ;-) /jon Robert G. Brown wrote: I do realize (*ahem*) that I'm one of three living humans that still use jove, an

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Peter St. John wrote: If someone had thought of a way to queue up and read tiny bits of paper science would have advanced a decade :-) Ahh, but but but... Let us grant that a bucket full of such dots can be shaken to where the order that they are drawn is unpredictable

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, andrew holway wrote: Apt-cache with a bit of grep is a powerful tool indeed. $apt-cache search foo | grep bar everyone I work with however prefers yum. They regard Debian as being a bit backward. I don't know if Debian is backward, but I will affirm that yum is pretty fa

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Peter St. John
I implemented "Chomp" (a nim-like game from Martin Gardner's description) in basic with paper-punch around '74. At that time I had no concepts for "OS" or "development environment" but I learned "acoustic coupler" and "teletype" and was confused by "duplex". Later I briefly used a keypunch to learn

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Tim Cutts wrote: If you want a good introduction to debian packages and how they work, then I recommend Martin Krafft's book "The Debian System". I've been a Debian Developer for ten years, and that book still teaches me useful stuff about Debian on a regular basis. V

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Gerry Creager wrote: Quote... "Three things in life a man must do, Before his days are done. Write two lines of APL... And make the sucker run." OK, so it's not PL-I but APL was another interesting beast. A friend had written an entire StarTrek game, including a 3d univer

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Geoff Jacobs
andrew holway wrote: > Not a fan of aptitude, Like command line me :) > > On 17/10/2007, Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 17 Oct 2007, at 10:30 am, andrew holway wrote: >> >>> Apt-cache with a bit of grep is a powerful tool indeed. >>> >>> $apt-cache search foo | grep bar >>> >>> everyon

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Tim Cutts
On 17 Oct 2007, at 1:02 pm, stephen mulcahy wrote: Tim Cutts wrote: I've been reading the aptitude documentation this morning, as it happens, and there's all sorts of useful stuff it can do above what apt-cache could manage, and it's solved a number of long- standing problems I've had...

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread andrew holway
Not a fan of aptitude, Like command line me :) On 17/10/2007, Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 17 Oct 2007, at 10:30 am, andrew holway wrote: > > > Apt-cache with a bit of grep is a powerful tool indeed. > > > > $apt-cache search foo | grep bar > > > > everyone I work with however prefe

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Tim Cutts
On 17 Oct 2007, at 10:30 am, andrew holway wrote: Apt-cache with a bit of grep is a powerful tool indeed. $apt-cache search foo | grep bar everyone I work with however prefers yum. They regard Debian as being a bit backward. I'm not familiar with yum, so I can't really comment. However, ap

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread andrew holway
Apt-cache with a bit of grep is a powerful tool indeed. $apt-cache search foo | grep bar everyone I work with however prefers yum. They regard Debian as being a bit backward. On 17/10/2007, Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 16 Oct 2007, at 10:19 pm, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > > On Tue,

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread Tim Cutts
On 16 Oct 2007, at 10:19 pm, Robert G. Brown wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jon Tegner wrote: You should switch to a .deb-system, to save you some trouble: $ apt-cache search jove jove - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful editor Sorry, couldn't resist ;-) Hey, it's ok. I'

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-17 Thread John Hearns
Peter St. John wrote: **real** programmers somehow get large numbers of thralls to hoist huge boulders into precise positions. s/boulders/19 inch racks/ ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscr

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Jim Lux
At 05:34 PM 10/16/2007, Gerry Creager wrote: Quote... "Three things in life a man must do, Before his days are done. Write two lines of APL... And make the sucker run." OK, so it's not PL-I but APL was another interesting beast. A friend had written an entire StarTrek game, including a 3d univ

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Gerry Creager
Quote... "Three things in life a man must do, Before his days are done. Write two lines of APL... And make the sucker run." OK, so it's not PL-I but APL was another interesting beast. A friend had written an entire StarTrek game, including a 3d universe, in APL and we wasted cycles waiting for

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Gerry Creager
Didn't you have a tic-tac-toe game on punch cards written in PL-1? John Leidel wrote: Friends don't let friends play tic-tac-toe using punchcards :-) On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:20 -0700, David Mathog wrote: Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote and, as we all know, real developers use paper: tape,

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, David Mathog wrote: Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote and, as we all know, real developers use paper: tape, tab cards, or, if they must, teletype rolls. You forgot paper tape. (Most people who used it probably wish they could forget it too!) Anyway, all of the tools yo

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Gerry Creager
Lombard, David N wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:20:51AM -0700, David Mathog wrote: Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote and, as we all know, real developers use paper: tape, tab cards, or, if they must, teletype rolls. You forgot paper tape. (Most people who used it probably wish they could

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jon Tegner wrote: You should switch to a .deb-system, to save you some trouble: $ apt-cache search jove jove - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful editor Sorry, couldn't resist ;-) Hey, it's ok. I'm actually trisystemal. FC 6 on top (soon to jump to 8

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Jon Forrest
Jim Lux wrote: Why not TECO? Indeed. One of the great features of TECO is that no matter what your name was, you could always enter it as a TECO command, and it would do something. Of course, as other people recognized long ago, most complicated TECO macros closely resembled transmission noise

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Jim Lux
At 11:20 AM 10/16/2007, David Mathog wrote: Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > and, as we all know, real developers > use paper: tape, tab cards, or, if they must, teletype rolls. You forgot paper tape. (Most people who used it probably wish they could forget it too!) That's what I meant P

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Rusty Lusk
On Oct 16, 2007, at 1:20 PM, David Mathog wrote: Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote and, as we all know, real developers use paper: tape, tab cards, or, if they must, teletype rolls. You forgot paper tape. (Most people who used it probably wish they could forget it too!) Anyway, all of the

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Peter St. John
**real** programmers somehow get large numbers of thralls to hoist huge boulders into precise positions. Poor GFLOPS/$, though. Peter ... Anyway, all of the tools you mentioned are for wimps - real > programmers load code directly into memory using the toggle > switches on the front of the compu

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Lombard, David N
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:20:51AM -0700, David Mathog wrote: > Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > and, as we all know, real developers > > use paper: tape, tab cards, or, if they must, teletype rolls. > > You forgot paper tape. (Most people who used it probably wish they > could forget it

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread John Leidel
Friends don't let friends play tic-tac-toe using punchcards :-) On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:20 -0700, David Mathog wrote: > Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > and, as we all know, real developers > > use paper: tape, tab cards, or, if they must, teletype rolls. > > You forgot paper tape. (Mo

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread David Mathog
Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > and, as we all know, real developers > use paper: tape, tab cards, or, if they must, teletype rolls. You forgot paper tape. (Most people who used it probably wish they could forget it too!) Anyway, all of the tools you mentioned are for wimps - real programm

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Jim Lux
At 07:39 AM 10/16/2007, Joe Landman wrote: Robert G. Brown wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, John Leidel wrote: `vi` :-P Yeah, you'd BETTER duck and run away right after Joe after that one. ;-) I have heard (or am spreading) the rumor that the 1-18-08 movie is not really a monster movie, but th

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Joe Landman wrote: Robert G. Brown wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, John Leidel wrote: `vi` :-P Yeah, you'd BETTER duck and run away right after Joe after that one. ;-) I have heard (or am spreading) the rumor that the 1-18-08 movie is not really a monster movie, but th

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, John Leidel wrote: `vi` :-P Yeah, you'd BETTER duck and run away right after Joe after that one. ;-) rgb On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 09:48 -0400, Joe Landman wrote: andrew holway wrote: And the winner of the 2007 Parallel Development Tools Award is... mak

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Joe Landman
Robert G. Brown wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, John Leidel wrote: `vi` :-P Yeah, you'd BETTER duck and run away right after Joe after that one. ;-) I have heard (or am spreading) the rumor that the 1-18-08 movie is not really a monster movie, but the final epic battle between vi and emacs .

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread John Leidel
`vi` :-P On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 09:48 -0400, Joe Landman wrote: > andrew holway wrote: > > And the winner of the 2007 Parallel Development Tools Award is... > > make -j16 ... > > (ducks and runs away) > > > ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowu

Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

2007-10-16 Thread Joe Landman
andrew holway wrote: And the winner of the 2007 Parallel Development Tools Award is... make -j16 ... (ducks and runs away) -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com http://jackrabbi