Re: [ilugd] flash mob computing !
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 09:23, vivek khurana wrote: --- linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: who said flash mob computing is fizzling itself out? [snip] Thank god you guyz disscussed it after i left. BTW what was stopping you from discussing it while me and shejar were around?? Well here is the outcome of our sunday morning adventure. [snip] great. so this weekend more stuff is to happen on RD of this stuff. you guys can read vivek's summary, and volunteer how to help thru the week, too guys. so when we meet this weekend, we have something in our hands. :-) LL ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] flash mob computing !
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 09:28, vivek khurana wrote: --- linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grrr someone else pick it up. [snip] anyone else could volunteer on this please? am busy with the apple sarovar thingie, and with a few other projects, like tutorials for free graphic design software, etc :-) LL ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] flash mob computing !
--- linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: great. so this weekend more stuff is to happen on RD of this stuff. you guys can read vivek's summary, and volunteer how to help thru the week, too guys. so when we meet this weekend, we have something in our hands. Hmm... we might have something in hand next week. This weekend (on sunday) me and mary are going to do some RD and will continue the work from where we left last sunday. As for thru the week, we are just collecting the packages. Anyone who is interested in joing the RD can come to Sarai this sunday any time after 11 am. Regards VK = Disclamer The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw... __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[ilugd] flash mob computing !
who said flash mob computing is fizzling itself out? here's the latest status: 1) kishore makes a pragmatic suggestion: choose a location where we have existing dozens of pc with infrastructure like power, backup, ac, network, etc. we had volunteers here devoting their sites. kishore recommends use one of these sites to showcase a flash mob supercomputer. even if it is of 50 nodes, or 100 nodes, it is a proof-of-concept. perhaps in the second or third attempt we could break a national or other record. perhaps in the hundredth. kishore knows. once upon a time, he was a car rally freak. participating and finishing is important. 2) raj stumps everyone with his 21 unanswerable questions. solution: ignore his questions and get on with the flashmob computing, as per kishore's suggestion. a scaled-down, initial flash-mob recce is better than no flashmob computer. simple. some tests done by flashmobbers showed problems in the nodes actually 'subtracting' rather than 'adding' computing power. unfortunately, vivek khurana, on whose shoulders the history of this moment is to rest, was missing during this discussion. so we could have discussed alternatives. i believe we could attempt this with another live distro, or contact the flashmob supercomputing list to find out what is happening. please, let's have a list of volunteered sites for the flashmob event. let's do a sample test of this using bootable cds on-location. even a two-node cluster would do. vivek, you can best coordinate this, as you are completely clued in to the intiative, and tell us how do we proceed. :-) LL (flasher in the mob) ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] flash mob computing !
linuxlingam wrote: some tests done by flashmobbers showed problems in the nodes actually 'subtracting' rather than 'adding' computing power. unfortunately, vivek khurana, on whose shoulders the history of this moment is to rest, was missing during this discussion. so we could have discussed alternatives. i believe we could attempt this with another live distro, or contact the flashmob supercomputing list to find out what is happening. please, let's have a list of volunteered sites for the flashmob event. let's do a sample test of this using bootable cds on-location. even a two-node cluster would do. vivek, you can best coordinate this, as you are completely clued in to the intiative, and tell us how do we proceed. I have a suggestion. Why dont you folks go to http://lap.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/WebHome and start off a page on the flahmob supercomputing status, resources found out till now, recent tries at the stuff - the problems found, etc.? We can have a link to this wiki site from the main ILUGD home page. LL, why dont you start out the top level page for the project, and then just make points for the various facets of it - like TODO, volunteers, resources needed, knowledge base, etc. People here can keep adding to it as needed. The LAP twiki site is lying unused. WE can use it for maintaining status for other projects of ILUGD (even the T-Shirt project). - Sandip P.S. I plan to start a page on twiki myself asking for donations to sponsor me to for my long-standing demand about my trip to Phuket for T-shirts on ILUGD funds, which I have been unfairly denied all these years. ;) -- Sandip Bhattacharya sandip (at) puroga.com Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Work: http://www.puroga.comHome: http://www.sandipb.net GPG: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] flash mob computing !
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 02:27, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: I have a suggestion. Why dont you folks go to http://lap.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/WebHome and start off a page on the flahmob supercomputing status,] LL, why dont you start out the top level page for the project, er.. you mean vivek. he coordinates this. :-) LL ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] flash mob computing !
LL == linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LL On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 02:27, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: I have a suggestion. Why dont you folks go to http://lap.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/WebHome and start off a page on the flahmob supercomputing status,] LL, why dont you start out the top level page for the project, LL er.. you mean vivek. he coordinates this. :-) LL Does he? Did he say so? -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] flash mob computing !
--- linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: who said flash mob computing is fizzling itself out? here's the latest status: 1) kishore makes a pragmatic suggestion: choose a location where we have existing dozens of pc with infrastructure like power, backup, ac, network, etc. we had volunteers here devoting their sites. kishore recommends use one of these sites to showcase a flash mob supercomputer. even if it is of 50 nodes, or 100 nodes, it is a proof-of-concept. perhaps in the second or third attempt we could break a national or other record. perhaps in the hundredth. Thank god you guyz disscussed it after i left. BTW what was stopping you from discussing it while me and shejar were around?? Well here is the outcome of our sunday morning adventure. Flashmob iso bombed (as i expected). It appears to be flaky and not performing properly with Intel hardware. The results we got were vaying. We could achieve 1.9 Gflops on single machine, but when we extended cluster to 3 nodes the Gflops fell to 0.5 Gflops. Flashmob iso was ruled out (unanimosly) due to flaky behaviour and non availability of source code. Following this new action plan was drawn. We decided to go for our iso. After some RD we got on with the job. I was carrying an educational cluster ISO which worked but there were no tools prtesent in the ISO to benchmark the performance. (we only tested network latency and stability and results were satisfactory). Manpreet started working on making a cluster using PCQLinux 2004(pre installed) as Anindya promised to make an live CD out of it. We were able to create a master node on PCQLinux, the problem started while creating the slave. One of the packages (we had a collection of packages to make cluster on RH6.2) required postgresql version 5.x and we had version 7.3 installed. By this time it was already 1:30 p.m and we had 4 crashed brains. So, we decided to continue this next weekend. Hopefully we will have a an ISO to do the the testing work next week. :-) LL (flasher in the mob) WHAT R U FLASHING??? Regards VK = Disclamer The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw... __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] flash mob computing !
--- linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 02:27, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: I have a suggestion. Why dont you folks go to http://lap.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/WebHome and start off a page on the flahmob supercomputing status,] LL, why dont you start out the top level page for the project, er.. you mean vivek. he coordinates this. :-) grrr someone else pick it up. I am taking care of the iso. Also, i am not the sole volunteer. There are limits to the amount of work a human can do. Regards VK = Disclamer The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw... __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
