Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Saturday 17 July 2010, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On 7/17/10, John R Pierce wrote: > > On 07/16/10 11:01 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > > > is your goal a "server" or "supercomputing"? all that tesla stuff sorta > > says supercomputing, while HA etc says 'server'. > >

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 7/17/10, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/16/10 7:12 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: Perhaps I have a distorted understanding of the cloud and HA technologies. But i have been looking at the GPU based SCs. I am looking at creating/building a Centos based infrastructure which would h

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 7/17/10, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > On Saturday 17 July 2010, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Lol, saturday morning entertainment :-) > > Combining HA + "personal supercomputer" + "in a cloud" + using GPUs sure > maxed > out my troll-o-meter. Very creative. > duh.. Q. If I can comp

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/17/10 2:11 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Q. If I can compute in cloud, in which cloud can I supercompute at an > affordable or sponsored cost? > > what is it you want to compute? what hardware resources do you want to bring to the table? what is this cloud of which you speak?

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Digimer
Raj, Here is the problem. All of us who've been in this industry for any period of time have heard an endless stream of "grand ideas". 99% never go anywhere at all. After a while, we can't help but get cynical and doubtful of yet another grand idea. Add to that your liberal use of "buzz

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Les Mikesell
Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > My aim is to have it all in open source model. Including the revenue > distribution. > Have you looked at Ubuntu's setup? I don't think it deals with GPU's but it might be an easier starting point than building from scratch, and if anything outgrows your resour

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Jerry Franz
On 7/17/2010 2:11 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Q. If I can compute in cloud, in which cloud can I supercompute at an > affordable or sponsored cost? > > I may be a gamer, AE student, Graphic designer, renderer and so forth. > > Now which part of above you did not understand? > > sigh... how

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-17 Thread Jay Leafey
JohnS wrote: && Why you scrub the MACS? Sheer paranoia and long-standing habit. Elaborate, you that paranoid? Over paranoid gets you faster than scrubing MACs. I would worry about, does my router have holes in it? Plus let your MAC fly on the wireless network. I let my neighbor connect to

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Thanks for the interest shown by all the responders. On 7/18/10, Jerry Franz wrote: > On 7/17/2010 2:11 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Everything you listed is interactive realtime or near-realtime graphics > intensive. A cloud is not really suited to that kind of task to begin >

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Thanks for all your replies. On 7/17/10, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/17/10 2:11 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: >> Q. If I can compute in cloud, in which cloud can I supercompute at an >> affordable or sponsored cost? > > what is it you want to compute? anything that is computable.

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 03:01:32AM +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > On 7/18/10, Jerry Franz wrote: > > Everything you listed is interactive realtime or near-realtime graphics > > intensive. A cloud is not really suited to that kind of task to begin > > with. > > I don't inderstand why it

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Thanks Les for your reply. (I dont top-post normally, but this was an emergency) On 7/17/10, Les Mikesell wrote: > Have you looked at Ubuntu's setup? I don't think it deals with GPU's but it > might be an easier starting point than building from scratch, and if > anything > outgrows

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > Thanks Les for your reply. (I dont top-post normally, but this was an > emergency) Emergency? Sorry, but your posts are leading me to think that you have lost it. >> Have you looked at Ubuntu's setup? I don't think it deals with GPU's but it >> m

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 18.07.2010 um 00:14 schrieb Rajagopal Swaminathan: > Greetings, > > Thanks Les for your reply. (I dont top-post normally, but this was > an emergency) > > On 7/17/10, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Have you looked at Ubuntu's setup? I don't think it deals with >> GPU's but it >> might be an ea

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 7/16/10, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: Despite all the discussions, I have not been able spend even 1 INR during the duration as I just don't have it. Regards, Rajagopal ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-17 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 16-Jul-10 19:17, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > On 07/17/2010 12:39 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> The domU got it's ip from the corporate DHCP server, which is what I >> intended (that's why I'm running bridged, I'm using virtual servers to >> separate functions while conserving physical boxes, so I

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Les Mikesell
Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > Thanks Les for your reply. (I dont top-post normally, but this was an > emergency) > > On 7/17/10, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Have you looked at Ubuntu's setup? I don't think it deals with GPU's but it >> might be an easier starting point than build

[CentOS] Audio fails on centos 5.5 sony laptop - snd-hda-intel

2010-07-17 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi List, been chasing my tail for the last two hours and getting nowhere on my wifes laptop. I only do updates monthly on her machine, as it is safely behind firewalls and only does email and browser stuff. I have never had audio problems on this laptop, Centos just worked from day one - even th

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 7/18/10, Les Mikesell wrote: > Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: >> On 7/17/10, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Dear Les, > Or did you mean that CentOS should have an equivalent to match the Ubuntu > configuration? Exactly. and I poised to do that as Centos x86_64 was attached thanks to this