Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-03-10 Thread Kris Kirby
On 18 Jan 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Fun Things To Do With Disks #9,187: Take a powered-up disk out of a hot-swap storage array and experiment with the gyro effect while the disk spins down in your hands. Higher RPMs give better results; try one of the 'cudas from that E10K in the

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-02-06 Thread Matt Dillon
:PW :PWI have a 15K rpm drive if you want to do a recalculation. I think that :PWis 1.05Mach, depending on whether you rounded or not. ;-) : :Well, 7cm gives 21cm per rotation or 2.1km for 1 rotations. 1 :Rotations Per Minute give around 130km per hour which is somewhere around

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Mark Huizer
| | Doh! I mean 9.8 m/s/s, of course. That's acceleration not velocity :-) The terminal velocity of a PC case is probably a lot lower than the velocity of an outer edge of a 1 RPM drive. What am I doing wrong? Given a diameter of appr. 7cm, I'd come at appr 0.7Mach. Does that mean

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Peter Wemm
Mark Huizer wrote: | | Doh! I mean 9.8 m/s/s, of course. That's acceleration not velocity :-) The terminal velocity of a PC case is probably a lot lower than the velocity of an outer edge of a 1 RPM drive. What am I doing wrong? Given a diameter of appr. 7cm, I'd come at

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Harti Brandt
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: PWMark Huizer wrote: PW | PW | Doh! I mean 9.8 m/s/s, of course. PW PW That's acceleration not velocity :-) PW PW The terminal velocity of a PC case is probably a lot lower than the PW velocity of an outer edge of a 1 RPM drive. PW PW What

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread thomas
On 30 Jan, Peter Wemm wrote: Mark Huizer wrote: | | Doh! I mean 9.8 m/s/s, of course. That's acceleration not velocity :-) The terminal velocity of a PC case is probably a lot lower than the velocity of an outer edge of a 1 RPM drive. What am I doing wrong? Given a

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What am I doing wrong? Given a diameter of appr. 7cm, I'd come at appr 0.7Mach. Does that mean that within a few years my machine will go KABOOM when booting? I have a 15K rpm drive if you want to do a recalculation. I think that

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]-- | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], |[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | What am I doing wrong? Given a diameter of appr. 7cm, I'd come at appr | 0.7Mach. Does that mean that within a few years my machine will go | KABOOM when booting? | | I have

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-20 Thread Wes Peters
"Russell L. Carter" wrote: % No it would not! Back in '94 I ported dmake to FreeBSD % and built just about every numerics package out there % on a 4 CPU cluster. Worked fine, but not much in overall % speedup, because... tadum! Where do you get the source % files, and how do you get the

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-20 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 20-Jan-01 Wes Peters wrote: "Russell L. Carter" wrote: details snipped %See the paper "Recursive Make Considered Harmful." Make is an amazing %tool when used correctly. That's not the problem, unfortunately. I've never had a problem rebuilding dependencies unnecessarily, or any of

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-20 Thread Russell L. Carter
I'm going to try these ideas out, thanks for the pointers. I'm highly motivated to stop waiting so long :-). And a nice use for the systems that have been piling up, if this works out. I'll be reporting back... Cheers, Russell % %On 20-Jan-01 Wes Peters wrote: % "Russell L. Carter" wrote:

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-19 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:41:15PM -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: Nowadays, you'd want to "globus ify" things, rather than use use PVM. For those who want a simple, stupid way to do this, making an MPI application is a convenient first step. MPI is pretty similar to PVM except that I don't

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-19 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: For those who want a simple, stupid way to do this, making an MPI application is a convenient first step. MPI is pretty similar to PVM except that I don't know of anyone in the high performance computing community that still uses PVM for new

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-19 Thread Wes Peters
"Russell L. Carter" wrote: %Uwe Pierau wrote: % % Jamie Heckford wrote: % # Hi, % # Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included % # with FreeBSD that allows the clustering of FreeBSD? % % Maybe you mean something like this... %

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-19 Thread Ronald G Minnich
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Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-19 Thread Russell L. Carter
% No it would not! Back in '94 I ported dmake to FreeBSD % and built just about every numerics package out there % on a 4 CPU cluster. Worked fine, but not much in overall % speedup, because... tadum! Where do you get the source % files, and how do you get the objs back :-) Not low % latency,

RE: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-18 Thread Koster, K.J.
| Doh! I mean 9.8 m/s/s, of course. That's acceleration not velocity :-) The terminal velocity of a PC case is probably a lot lower than the velocity of an outer edge of a 1 RPM drive. Hmm. That would make a FreeBSD cluster quite useful as a garden shredder, even with lower disc

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Koster, K.J." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The terminal velocity of a PC case is probably a lot lower than the velocity of an outer edge of a 1 RPM drive. Hmm. That would make a FreeBSD cluster quite useful as a garden shredder, even with lower disc rotation speeds I'd imagine. Fun

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-18 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:17:36PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: "Koster, K.J." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The terminal velocity of a PC case is probably a lot lower than the velocity of an outer edge of a 1 RPM drive. Hmm. That would make a FreeBSD cluster quite useful as a

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-18 Thread Wes Peters
Uwe Pierau wrote: Jamie Heckford wrote: # Hi, # Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included # with FreeBSD that allows the clustering of FreeBSD? Maybe you mean something like this... http://acme.ecn.purdue.edu/index.html ?! Yes! When is somebody going

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-18 Thread Russell L. Carter
%Uwe Pierau wrote: % % Jamie Heckford wrote: % # Hi, % # Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included % # with FreeBSD that allows the clustering of FreeBSD? % % Maybe you mean something like this... % http://acme.ecn.purdue.edu/index.html % ?! % %Yes! % %When is

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jamie Heckford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In all honesty, I am just looking for something to play with and see how fast FreeBSD can go. I'd say about 2.8 m/s/s, given sufficient height. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jamie Heckford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In all honesty, I am just looking for something to play with and see how fast FreeBSD can go. I'd say about 2.8 m/s/s, given sufficient height. Doh! I mean 9.8 m/s/s, of course. DES -- Dag-Erling

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-17 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+---[ Dag-Erling Smorgrav ]-- | Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Jamie Heckford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | In all honesty, I am just looking for something to play | with and see how fast FreeBSD can go. | I'd say about 2.8 m/s/s, given sufficient

Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-16 Thread Jamie Heckford
Hi, Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included with FreeBSD that allows the clustering of FreeBSD? I have 55 racks sitting here to play with, and want to start doing some serious work (for me anyway!) with fBSD Plz. let me know! :) Thanks, -- Jamie Heckford Chief

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jamie Heckford [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010116 09:29] wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included with FreeBSD that allows the clustering of FreeBSD? I have 55 racks sitting here to play with, and want to start doing some serious work (for me anyway!) with

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-16 Thread opentrax
On 16 Jan, Jamie Heckford wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included with FreeBSD that allows the clustering of FreeBSD? I have 55 racks sitting here to play with, and want to start doing some serious work (for me anyway!) with fBSD Plz. let me

RE: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-16 Thread Charles Randall
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Clustering FreeBSD Hi, Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included with FreeBSD that allows the clustering of FreeBSD? I have 55 racks sitting here to play with, and want to start doing some serious work (for me anyway!) with fBSD Plz. l

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-16 Thread Jamie Heckford
In all honesty, I am just looking for something to play with and see how fast FreeBSD can go. Sort of thing where those two guys clustered about 200 486's or something stupid like that.. :) Jamie On 2001.01.16 18:31:43 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Jan, Jamie Heckford wrote: Hi,

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-16 Thread Russell L. Carter
%In all honesty, I am just looking for something to play %with and see how fast FreeBSD can go. % %Sort of thing where those two guys clustered about 200 486's %or something stupid like that.. Go to google and search for Beowulf. Or Mosix. Or Ron Minnich :-) Or "smart networks", if all you

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-16 Thread Matthew West
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:36:51PM +, Jamie Heckford wrote: Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included with FreeBSD that allows the clustering of FreeBSD? Install the pvm port (ports/net/pvm) on the machines. I've played around with this a bit, and it's quite fun to

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-16 Thread Uwe Pierau
Jamie Heckford wrote: # Hi, # Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included # with FreeBSD that allows the clustering of FreeBSD? Maybe you mean something like this... http://acme.ecn.purdue.edu/index.html ?! Uwe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-16 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:36:51PM +, Jamie Heckford scribbled: | Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included | with FreeBSD that allows the clustering of FreeBSD? | | I have 55 racks sitting here to play with, and want to start doing | some serious work (for me