[ale] HPC Node Test Util or Suite

[Ron Frazier]

PS to my prior reply to this message.  If you want to prevent dust from 
entering the air intakes of a computer, go to Hobby Lobby, etc. and get a 
roll of wedding ribbon.  The roll I got was 6" wide and 25 Yards long for 
$8.  Enough to last me forever.  Cut out a sheet and fix it over the air 
intake.  The ribbon has the appearance of very VERY fine window screen, but 
it's plastic, not metal, and very flexible.  I've put this on my 
laptops.  I just used scotch tape, not pretty, but functional.  Hopefully, 
this will prevent any more dust glob killing the computer experiences.  I 
suspect it reduces air flow by 10% - 15%, but my systems work fine with it 
on there.

Ron

At 9/14/2010 12:37 PM -0400, you wrote:
>Hey ALErs,
>
>We have a few 1U Dual Xeon HPC nodes going to a National Lab soon and I 
>was wanting to give them a good exercise to see what kind of CPU temps 
>we'll get when they're running flat out. I'm not sure what flavor of Linux 
>the lab runs, but I was thinking of tossing on Rocks. Any suggestions on 
>what to use to put a pair of E-5620 Quad Core CPUs w/ 48GB of RAM through 
>a stress test?
>
>Thanks,
>GC


--------------------------
(PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to 
call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy 
mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new messages very quickly.)

Ron Frazier

770-205-9422 (O)   Leave a message.
linuxdude AT c3energy.com