Re: Linux article (fwd) ronny@pcon.co.il

2002-11-19 Thread Orna Agmon
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Ehud Karni wrote: > > Number crunching servers are used for running CPU-hungry processes, > > usually floating point calculations. Typically those would be various > > numerical simulations, solving of large matrices, Monte Carlo > > calculations, etc. > > Don't humiliate

Re: Linux article (fwd) ronny@pcon.co.il

2002-11-18 Thread Guy Baruch
for academic supercomputers in israel, try: http://www.machba.ac.il/ then click on the last item, HCPU . in it, you'll find: "The machine installed at Tel-Aviv University - "Or" - has 56 nodes (112 R12000 400Mhz Processors) and 512MB memory, allowing for a maximum of 28Gb RAM and 600Gb of lo

Re: Linux article (fwd) ronny@pcon.co.il

2002-11-18 Thread Orna Agmon
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Ehud Karni wrote: > This is all dedicated servers running "off the shelf" software (except > may be the "number crunchers" what are they used for ?). Number crunching servers are used for running CPU-hungry processes, usually floating point calculations. Typically those woul

Re: Linux article (fwd) ronny@pcon.co.il

2002-11-18 Thread Ehud Karni
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:45:39 +0200 (IST), Orna Agmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Ehud Karni wrote: > > This is all dedicated servers running "off the shelf" software (except > > may be the "number crunchers" what are they used for ?). > > Number crunching servers are used

Re: Linux article (fwd)ronny@pcon.co.il

2002-11-18 Thread Ehud Karni
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:23:19 +0200, Ariel Biener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course we use Linux as servers ... > Included but definetly not all are (at TAU): > > mail servers > NIS servers > 1 proxy > 2 general usage number crunching servers > 1 general purpose server > 1 IDS > 1 Checkpoin