[9fans] auth problems solved.

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Simon
Thanks to those who replied, further investigation revelaed I am an idiot; all sorted now. It works as expected with a special hostowner for the mac. -Steve

[9fans] pcie for inter machine comms

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Simon
Any of the HPC guys who read this list know of anyone using pcie with a non-transparent bridge to send data between hosts as a very fast, very local network? I seem to remember IBM did somthing like this with back-to-back DMAs in RS6000 in the early 1990s, but does anyone do it now? or do we feel

Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms

2011-07-06 Thread Richard Miller
> I seem to remember IBM did somthing like this with back-to-back DMAs in > RS6000 in the early 1990s ... and before that (1970s) you could join 360 and 370 mainframes into what we would nowadays call a "cluster" by splicing I/O channels together with a CTC (channel-to-channel adapter). That doe

Re: [9fans] auth problems solved.

2011-07-06 Thread Bruce Ellis
As Boyd would say "Special Things, Indeed". You aren't an idiot - one of Mac's providors is. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > Thanks to those who replied, further investigation revelaed I am > an idiot; all sorted now. It works as expected with a special hostowner > for the

Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms

2011-07-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> I seem to remember IBM did somthing like this with back-to-back DMAs in > RS6000 in the early 1990s, but does anyone do it now? or do we feel that > UDP over 40gE is fast enough for anything anyone needs (at present)? 40gbe has more bandwidth than an 8 lane pcie 2.0 slot, but obviously bandwidth

Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms

2011-07-06 Thread ron minnich
http://www.epn-online.com/page/new59551/pcie-switch-devices.html and http://www.plxtech.com/products/expresslane/switches This seems to come up with every new generation of a new bus, such as pci or lately pcie. It has a lot of limits and, eventually, people just go with a fast network. For one th

Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms

2011-07-06 Thread Jack
On 7/6/2011 4:06 AM, Steve Simon wrote: Any of the HPC guys who read this list know of anyone using pcie with a non-transparent bridge to send data between hosts as a very fast, very local network? I seem to remember IBM did somthing like this with back-to-back DMAs in RS6000 in the early 1990s,

[9fans] Plan 9 on VIA C7

2011-07-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
Looking to get the following motherboard: Jetway VIA C7 1.5GHz CN700 It would work well to house 2 IDE and 1 SATA drives. Has anyone tried Plan 9 on this, before I commit $100 to it? Thanks, ak

[9fans] 9atom & virtualbox 4.0.10 networking issue

2011-07-06 Thread Bakul Shah
Good news: 9atom installs fine on virtualbox 4.0.10 (the latest) and most everything works Bad news: network access fails Since DHCP failed I hardwired an IP address and tried pinging the gateway. tcpdump on the host shows that ARP request goes out and the gateway sends its ARP response but thi

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on VIA C7

2011-07-06 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
> Jetway VIA C7 1.5GHz CN700 My primary terminal is an Epia-EX motherboard with a 1 GHz C3. It's diskless so I can't speak for the IDE or SATA support, but video (1920x1080) and network are fine. If the board you are looking at uses the same (or similar) N/S-bridge chips you should be fine. --ly

Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms

2011-07-06 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
> This seems to come up with every new generation of a new bus, such as > pci or lately pcie. It has a lot of limits and, eventually, people > just go with a fast network. For one thing, it doesn't grow that big > and, for another, error handling can be interesting. Has anyone done up a driver for

Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms

2011-07-06 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: >> This seems to come up with every new generation of a new bus, such as >> pci or lately pcie. It has a lot of limits and, eventually, people >> just go with a fast network. For one thing, it doesn't grow that big >> and, fo

Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms

2011-07-06 Thread Charles Forsyth
i tried a pair of (i think) ultrastor 34f (VESA Local Bus!) connected back to back with Fast/Wide/Indifferent SCSI (one was host, the other was target) between cpu server and file server and it was fine while it lasted. when something went wrong, the target's bus would hang. in fact, it also wasn'

Re: [9fans] 9atom & virtualbox 4.0.10 networking issue

2011-07-06 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: > Good news: 9atom installs fine on virtualbox 4.0.10 (the >   latest) and most everything works > Bad news: network access fails > > Since DHCP failed I hardwired an IP address and tried pinging > the gateway. tcpdump on the host shows that ARP re

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on VIA C7

2011-07-06 Thread cinap_lenrek
had a via c7 machine once and i had problems with ide and sata. gave spontanious i/o errors if you use multiple drives and sata was emulated as ide. i use plan9 on sb600 based machines now and it works perfectly. -- cinap