[ale] high performance computing

[Jeff Layton]

  On 07/26/2012 11:19 AM, Vernard Martin wrote:
> On 7/25/2012 4:01 PM, John Heim wrote:
>> Anybody know of an email list for people to talk about high performance
>> computing? I need to just get some general understanding of the concepts. It
>> looks like most HPC machines run linux. My department has $200K to spend and
>> I'd like to find out what kinds of systems we can get for that kind of
>> money. The people using the machine have their own specific needs but they
>> are counting on me to help them out with expandability. So they can tell me
>> it needs X number os and Y Gb of RAM. But then they're expecting me to tell
>> them what they can get for that $200K.
>>
> By far the most useful group for this sort of thing is the Beowulf
> Mailing list (beowulf at beowulf.org). Subscribe to it and be polite as you
> ask your questions. You might also try to search the archives. You can
> probably get the answers to your questions right there.
>

The Beowulf list is all but dead. When Don Becker left Penguin
to go to Nvidia the list basically died (and the signal/noise ratio
got really bad).

I'm been doing HPC for a bit north of 25 years in various capacities.
User, coder, admin, vendor sales, author, etc. I currently write for
a couple of websites and I've written for various magazines and
websites in the past.

While I do work for a vendor I will do my very best not to behave like
one on this list :)  So fire away - what are your questions?

Thanks!

Jeff