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> :PW>I have a 15K rpm drive if you want to do a recalculation. I think that :PW>is 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 :0.1MA

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? | >>

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

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

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Harti Brandt
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: PW>Mark 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

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. 7

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 th

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

2001-01-20 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 20-Jan-01 Wes Peters wrote: > "Russell L. Carter" wrote: >> %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 those

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 yo

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 %> lat

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-19 Thread Ronald G Minnich
Sorry, the wrong URL. http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rminnich ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-19 Thread Paul Marquis
This link appears broken. Typo perhaps? Ronald G Minnich wrote: > See it at http://www.lanl.gov/~rminnich/. -- Paul Marquis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

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... > %> http://ac

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 appli

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

2001-01-18 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! % %

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 somebo

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

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. Fu

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

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 suffic

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-Erl

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 "un

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 anyway!)

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] wit

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 t

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 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: > >

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 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

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!)

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 Netwo