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Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Penguin Computers
Pii writes "News.com is running a story about Penguin Computing acquiring Scyld Computing, a company founded by Donald Becker, of linux ethernet driver and Beowulf cluster fame. Becker will stay on as Penguin's Chief Technology Officer, and the companies claim they don't expect any layoffs as a result of the merger."
FP FUCK YOU FAGS!
There is no god
See Topic fucker!
Imagine a beowulf.. oh.. I see you've already covered that
1. build linux computers in clusters
2. ???
3. profit!!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these !
The topic alone makes the next 100 posts redundant..
Prehaps now they'll have enough time to get the DEC Tulip driver working 100%
...the 2 workers at each company were relieved to here today that their jobs were no in jeopardy.
It's about time that Scyld goes, seeing that he's DEAD (his funeral) at least as far as Beowulf is concerned.
--- You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad- Neal (not Cowboy) Boortz
Just curious (in a serious way), is anybody actually using a beowolf cluster for anything important? Anything that couldn't be done with a super-powerful single machine?
--D
most likely running redhat as well seeing as the founder of redhat is one of their chief investors... Try a real flavor like gentoo... redhat = miniVole
A beowulf cluster of NATILE PORTMAN nude with HOT GRITS.
PROPS TO MAUS.
Re: Your application for frist prost:
DENIED!
I posted newbieshly to a Debian NG and amidst the flames and RTFM's, Donald Becker actually took the time to provide me with the solution.
This experience encouraged me to continue learning Linux networking, and the rest is (obscure) history.... :-)
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
A Beowulf cluster of resurgent troll jokes.
A Beowulf Cluster of Beowulf Clustering Companies ... shenanigans.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
imagine a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters
Here's one at my workplace...
What takes hours on this system could take weeks on a "super-powerful single machine".
BlackNova Traders
Does anybody know if NetBSD has been proted to this yet?
Imagine a Penguin cluster of a Beowulf Penguin cluster of clusters of Penguins and Beowulfs surrounded by clusters of Beowins and Pengowulfs which are then clustered together into a nice, neat, little cluster.
Betcha can't imagine that. So there!
How do you rate the article as troll?
Bugs are just features that have been fixed.
Have you ever heard clusters mentioned in literature prior to 1960? No? That's because liberal scientists invented the concept of Beowulf Clusters to push their hippie Communist principles through false benchmark numbers telling us the pervasive lie that sharing resources evenly is the most efficient method. Don't buy it.
The Beowulf clusters YOU!
the two companies don't expect to lay off any staff, a representative said
... The key word here is "expect". My former company's management didn't expect layoffs either, but funnily enough they did 6 rounds before sinking completely.
Right, so they'll have 2 PR divisions, 2 marketing divisions,
This said, Donald Becker is cool, Penguin Computing is cool (I toyed with an alpha box from them for a while and I was very inpressed), so I reckon the result should be uber-cool.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Other headlines to show up soon:
â¦with a constant background of noisy chatter, but with slightly less rotten fish stench.
What the FUCK is a "Beowulf Cluster" ???
Don't read this!
All the computers that could be extracted from the Beowulf clusters this new company will have!
Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
My company built a head-to-head multiplayer trivia game using Penguin computers, they worked great and I'd recommend them for people doing web-based multiplayer.
those guys are great, and congrats to them. I have fond memories of walking down to their office on Mission St, and carrying one of their new 2U boxes down to where I worked. When we opened the box, not only did we find a machine that is still running right now (over 2 years) but a couple of cool tshirts.
If i ever met you i would SHIT IN YOUR MOUTH!
Hey!!!
Thats mine line.
I will now sue you under the DMCA for copyright infringement and circumventing my right to say my line!
Mr. T: I Pity The Foo Who Doesn't Eat My Cereal
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Everyone knows that you can't keep a Beowulf cluster of penguins up for too long; the nodes will all go down as soon as a plane flies over them and trash your uptime.
Whoops.
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
We have 2 that we use for simulations in the Physics department. Well, i say 2...the 2nd one hasn't actually been assembled yet.
The reason we use the beowulfs is because the problems are such that they're easy to break up into chunks. Consider the "system" (in our case) to be a cube with stuff inside that we want to process. We can break the cube up into smaller cubes and process those chunks, and then reassemble (must like is done with folding@home, seti@home, and the like).
The difference? Well, instead of a program taking a day to run, it will take a few hours. Instead of taking a week, it may take a day.
Sometimes a problem doesn't require a Beowulf. If you require several simulations, and the total CPU time amounts to 1 month...then you'd do just as well running the simulations on nodes and just waiting a month. If you REALLY want to know what's happening with a certain set of conditions, it's often times very useful to use the cluster to find out in a matter of hours.
Mike.
Mmmm......sacrelicious.
I've got about 9 plushie penguins sitting on my desk (hint, that's how many Altus's we have running our nasty compute jobs)
I am QUITE CERTAIN this merger will mean even more gnarly Penguin configurations!
Sun better watch the hell out. (go ahead fanboys, flame away)
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
Ahh... cheap shit Tulip cards and RealTek 8139s... now those are the kinds of quality hardware you can depend on! And you wonder why you have networking problems.
Becker has spent a LOT of his time adding Linux support for poorly documented, mis-configured, total crap hardware - and you cheap assholes complain. You should read the kernel newsgroup archives - some developers suggested a few years back that they dump RTL81XX entirely because the firmware sucked so bad. You whiners should be thanking Scyld for their work.
Or maybe buy a decent NIC instead.
Everyone will start to cheer when you put on your sailin' shoes.
SeCX YOU!
NO SIG
The cluster *beowulfs* you.
Not really sure how it's supposed to do that, but still.
Hey! Imagine a CLIC cluster of those!
Millions of dollars are going down the drain to fund missions to planets by way of virtual reality just like the Moon landing. But the majority still believe these missions are real. What a crock.
Gay crossdressing dragons tapdance their way down from the fifth dimension and click their red high heels together every time classical music is played. Their crooked teeth gnash together in perfect harmony generating 1.21 Gigawatts so Marty can visit Mars again.
Oops! We lost a robot, give us another billion. Har Har
And NO ONE cares. Tinfoil hat conspiracy UFO men in black lipstick dragons anyone anyone here rover here rover it's a wabbit in disguise the roosters crow up the wrong tree now the chickens receive nailpolish prior to thanksgiving we don't want the swap meet on Jupiter a little dance under the toilet turd showers bring star trek showers. nose nose now he knows! nose!
As I think more about it, it's very strange to me that this story was posted on Tuesday. As in troll Tuesday.
What if there's a grand conspiracy involving Slashdot, the trolls, and a higher level of consciousness related to both?! What if the war between them is simply a stage on which to act out and therefore express the human tendency to resist authority, and, as such, to sanction it?!
Oh, the horror! The agonizing, cold truth!
...
Ok, which door was it again?
Business Description
Penguin Computing was founded in 1998 with one goal: to create servers that were as reliable as anything from Sun, IBM or SGI. But instead of running mainframe level hardware with proprietary Unix, they ran on x86 architecture with a dynamic new open source operating system - Linux. The company operates in Mountain View, CA, in a room rented from an ISP.
So, who exatly was saved from being layed off?
This guy beats Nixon as a pathological liar
Thanks for nothing,
W00t
Why didn't Donald Becker bring Walter Fagen into the company?
BTW: First Steely Dan post.
With hot grits all over them!
...becoming a patent millionaire
pfffft. I've got 2 clusters of those. Dave
Do not wory, Taco wil re-submit the story.
The Linux IDE guy, also rules. ATA66, ATA100, SATA, thank you Andre! He helped me sort out a caching IDE controller once via private email.
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well this is great news. i work for a visual fx company and we pretty much use Penguin gear for our render farms and IT infrastructure. These guys have great gear and great prices...so this sounds great.
I thought Scyld was based in Anapolis Md. will they be moving out to Cali?
God is real, unless declared integer.
I've got 3
All made entirely out of hot grits
All installed by Natalie Portman, who I stripped and petrified afterwards.
Oh ya, they're all in here, too.
Spock lost his spoon. Maybe Snoopy had taken it. But at the time he didn't know. And where was his fork? He had lost this since yesterday. Then, it was discovered that Spock was really a communist. The commander Jero had suspected that from the strange ears and told it to the cook of the ship when they were chatting on the IRC. Spock was a goddamn communist sonofabitch....
Image a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf clusters!!
Is that even possible by definition?
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10, @05:37PM (#6165208)
Spock lost his spoon. Maybe Snoopy had taken it. But at the time he didn't know. And where was his fork? He had lost this since yesterday. Then, it was discovered that Spock was really a communist. The commander Jero had suspected that from the strange ears and told it to the cook of the ship when they were chatting on the IRC. Spock was a goddamn communist sonofabitch...
And this is our supercomputing center.... also known as "the flock?"
I wonder what they'd call something like this. What do you call a linked group of processing computers? Maybe it depends on purpose - like "the armada" for military Beowulfs, or perhaps the "inquisition" for the RIAA
It's cool that Donald got this deal, a lot of linux users owe him a great deal.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
(pretty visual, but funny anyway)
A guy wants to have sex for money, but hes has only got $10.
He asks a first whore, but she says she doesn't dump prices.
He asks another one, but she says the lowest she gives is blowjobs and those cost $20
This continues until he finds one who tells him "For $10, I will do the Penguin to you".
The guy agrees and she lowers his pants, only to run away with the $10.
The guy grabs his pants and limps after the girl, shouting "My money !" (this is the visual part)
You know what pisses me off? Just try going to a store and LOOKING for an ethernet card that ISN'T Realtek. Everywhere I go I find all this Realtek based garbage--a real, honest to god 3Com or Intel card is now a special order! No one stocks them anymore, just Realtek junk (or Netgear cards, which are also realtek).
I could at first, but then the acid wore off. Let's call it a draw, OK?
Imagine a single processor, isolated from the cluster, working all by itself!
We have moved to different offices in Annapolis about a mile away from our original location. The view isn't as nice, but the new office space has a machine room that is about three times the size of the small office that we previously used.
I've got 3
All made entirely out of hot grits
All installed by Natalie Portman, who I stripped and petrified afterwards.
All in Soviet Russia...
It's very difficult to make money on software in the Beowulf arena because, duh, it's FREE! You have to make your money on hardware and integration of the hardware and software. Seems that there'll be lots of overhead with all of the developers now on hand at Penguin. Maybe this is why the CEO of Penguin, Marty Sayer, left 2 years ago and is now a VP at AMD.
In addition, for the most part Clustermatic does the same thing and is setup the exact same as a Scyld distribution, granted Scyld does add some neat things of their own. Although Scyld actually has turned a profit here of late, don't get me wrong, I like Becker but I really don't see this one working out in the long run.
That's quite a clever signature, jinxie. The irony is not wasted.
Black holes are where the Matrix raised SIGFPE
that need to pay $C0
cluster is glad it's not in YOU!