seminars and webcasting on 7th July
Dear All, As you probably already know there will be three extremely interesting seminars held on the 7th July at Daresbury - Jack Dongarra, U of Tennessee "Multicore and Hybrid Computing for Dense...
View ArticleEnabling I/OAT and DCA on a live system
Hi All, though this might be of interest to someone on the list. It is an article about how to enable I/OAT and DCA on a live system or a system that hides the option in the BIOS. According to the...
View ArticleSome beginner's questions on cluster setup
Hi, Im new to the list & also to cluster technology in general. Im planning on building a small 20+node cluster, and I have some basic questions. We're planning on running 5-6 motherboards with...
View ArticleObtaining knowledge
Hello, I'm trying learn how to built my first computer cluster using OEM PC and /or PS3. What do I need to do? I've try searching the subject online using Google and youtube. But, there's no clear...
View Articlehints for benchmarking on-chip communication
Hello list, I want to benchmark on-chip performance of message passing from one process running on one core to another process running on another core (test setup would be OpenMPI 1.3.2 with a 4-socket...
View Articlenvidia card id?
Does anyone know off hand if there is a way to pull the exact card information from an nvidia GPU inside a linux server from linux itself? I received an S1070, but linux seems to think it's a S870. The...
View Article*FREE* SC09 Education Program's Summer Tutorial Workshops(Ark, OK)
Came across this announcement and thought I'd pass it along: SUMMARY: *FREE* *FREE* *FREE* *FREE* *FREE* *FREE* *FREE* *FREE* *FREE* *FREE* SC09 Education Program's Summer Tutorial Workshops on...
View Articlestorage server hardware considerations
I'm thinking about building a moderately fast network storage server using a striped array of SSD disks. I'm not sure how much such a device would benefit from being dual processor and whether the...
View ArticleMissing pvmd for Rpvm
Greetings I am trying to install the R rpvm package to run R on a scyld/beowulf cluster. > install.packages('rpvm',dependencies=TRUE) also installing the dependency rsprng trying URL...
View ArticleApproach For Diagnosing Heat Related Failure?
I have a rack full of identical compute nodes. One of them has become heat sensitive. When it's in the warm computer room it crashes. I can't even run memtest from the CentOS DVD for 2 seconds....
View Articlesolaris disk naming under linux
Does anyone happen to have the udev rules for converting 0:0:0:0 disk identifiers under udev into solaris like disk/c0t0d0s0? I could have sworn I saw it on the net somewhere a while back, but I'm...
View ArticleProblem with environment variable
Hello, I'am using PVM with two nodes: a master node with Fedora Core 8 called "pippo" and a slave node with ubuntu 8.10 called "pluto". I've installed PVM on both "pippo" and "pluto", and set those...
View ArticleXorg question
Does anyone know if there is a way to get 'glxinfo' to run against the running local Xserver, if i ssh in to a remote workstation? When i SSH in to the workstation i have ForwardX turn on in ssh, so i...
View ArticleFabric design consideration
Hi, All, I've been re-evaluating our existing InfiniBand fabric design for our HPC systems since I've been tasked with determining how we will add more systems in the future as more and more...
View ArticleMPI can determine which CPU to send a process?
Hello, I'm search the best Message Passing implementation to use in the University Beowulf Cluster, and I was wandering if MPI can determine which CPU to send a process. With MPI I can determine the...
View Articleen masse BIOS upgrade issue extremely relevant again
"Intel Server Boards in the S3000, S3200, S5000 series, S5400 series, and S5500 series": http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/30/intel_bios_security_bug/ _______________________________________________...
View ArticleBProc
Hello list, do you know if this project is still alive ? Or replaced/renamed ? http://bproc.sourceforge.net/ -- Best regards, Marian Marinov _______________________________________________ Beowulf...
View ArticleRegarding a cluster setup
Dear sir/mam, I am making a hybrid cluster using colinux fedora core 10 and an opensource clustering software.I am not able to find a software that might fulfill the needs 1)it must autodiscover the...
View ArticleLustre Featured on Podcast
Thanks to Andreas for taking an hour out to talk with Jeff Squyres and myself (Brock Palen) about the Lustre cluster filesystem on our podcast www.rce-cast.com, You can find the whole show at:...
View Articleforce factory rest of sfs7000 (topspin 120)
We have a cisco sfs7000 (maybe still under support waiting on cisco) also known as a topspin 120, IB switch. We cannot login with the password we (thought) had it set to. I have looked online and find...
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