Our 48 Node beowulf has a/home volume on a 3ware controlled array. Sometimes, we get those users that decide they need to write out their incremental data sets across the NFS mount... from 48 nodes. Sure, a parallel file system would be great, but from what we've seen, only GFS was close to production quality (and they just recently gpl'd it).
Anyway, that kind of load brought that head node (dual proc 1700+ MP) to its knees until we decided to rebuild it. Moving from the hardware controlled raid to linux's software raid completely resolved that problem.
Thats wonderful. I've about 70 win machines on a condor grid, some AMD boxes some P4 Dells. On 3 machines, SP4 completely hosed Add/Remove Programs and the control panel. There was something else even more serious but this was a while ago. I had to roll everything back to SP3 to maintain concurrency.
I'm a beowulf admin and deal mainly with linux so I am probably not the best choice when you want someone to admin a windows box. Maybe I screwed up somewhere?
to find text books at a book store that are of acceptable quality. From what I've seen, these "open source" books have a long, long way to go before anyone can even consider using them for their studies. For now, a few make decent desk references. However, most of the material, as of now, appears half-ass written, with very little content and poor explanations.
This is not to say that i hope they stop, on the contrary, I hope they continue this work but that they start to focus on the details, rather than just filling chapters and adding sections that don't get written for months on end.
I agree with your statement about the Bush Administration: This group has turned me from a centrist/conservative to a screaming liberal in the span of just two years (perhaps with the aid of some college philosophy courses;), however I strongly disagree with your assessment that "Times have NOT changed... this WAS, and IS a free country"
Over the last 50 years, the rights of the citizens in this country have slowly disappeared. From the "Red Scare" and McCarthyism to the current topic of the Patriot Act, it is undeniable that the last 50 years have shredded the constitution provided us by this nation's founders.
A free country does not allow the government to pass laws that provide for the silent imprisonment and execution of its citizens, citizens who haven't even been convicted of a crime. A free country does not allow its private sector and capitalists to dictate domestic and foreign policy in their favor and to the disadvantage of the majority. A free country does not encourage the widening of gaps between social classes by promoting the elite and trampling and stifling the poor. A free country does not make its will dominate another sovereign country, regardless of their political system and certainly does not invade it without clear justification. A free country allows its citizens to hold its leaders accountable for their actions, actions that have caused the deaths of hundreds of your brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters and countless civilians overseas.
My friend, I have seen a free country, a country where two right-winged political parties do not dominate the political spectrum and national tickets, where peoples rights are preserved and social classes have been all but eliminated, a country where soft-money and corporate sponsorships are not permitted to "buy" elections. The U.S. is no longer a free country and it's high time something is done about it.
Sorry for the rant, but these times have gotten me in a sort of frenzy over the current state of things. Think about it. You don't have to agree, thats freedom, but believe you me, there are many that do and many more that want to see change.
This reminds me of the one poor soul that lives on the Beowulf list. He's probably the only guy that runs a Windows cluster. Occasionally, he'll post something and the entire list will either point out how absurd it is that he is running windows on a cluster or some other such nonsense. I think more Windows clusters will be a Good Thing, at least for this guy, so that he is no longer alone in the world;)
Yes, I know. A viola is a cousin of the violin. And I think I know what I think it means (do not comment on the last statement, it'll make you the fool). Pardon my spelling of voila, I'm a musician and viola comes naturally. Oh, and please spare me the elitism. Its not for you to point out anyone's foibles. By the way, there should be a period between word and I. That is a blantant example of a horrid comma splice.
Make your own CD image (its really easy), add an rpm for pine (redhat 9's should work fine), add it to the install list, viola. Burn a new set of CDs and install. Your pine troubles are over.
I wish slashdot had a way to grep out gentoo fanboy posts. I'm really getting sick of them. You people think you are "hard-core" because you've compiled your distro from scratch, that you've saved, due to compiler optimizations, maybe 2 or 3 uSecs on execution time, and that your single emerge command simply wipes the floor with all the rest.
This story is about Fedora, not Gentoo. Gentoo seems pretty sweet, if you have a lot of time on your hands and perhaps no girlfriend. For people like me, Fedora is great. They are not playing catch up as you say, because these packages have actually been tested pretty thoroughly, unlike your emerged tar-balls that were instantaneously added to the repositories after the mirrors went live.
I'm not here to rag on your distro, I'm just sick of the elitism that the gentoo users wreak of when they post on slashdot.
You know what sucked though? Only a few of those games, based on the quake 3 engine, were ever made to run on linux despite the fact that the engine was. Damn game companies.
From what I have read, Trent was supposedly involved in the design of the sound engine and most of the sampling that is part of the game (he was a CE or EE student at some point in the past). When you get the game, you will know if it was Trent or not.
When my old town first got cable broadband, the company, Cox, did not put any bandwidth restrictions on the connections, because not a lot of people were online at the time. We would constantly get 1MBps to 2MBps, like we had our own 10Mb connection straight to the internet. Later, they put limits in place. Here in tampa, the limit was 256KBps or a while. They recently raised it to around 366KBps and haven't raised the rates. Perhaps it does vary by region, but I feel bad for the guy, paying that kind of price and getting 1/3 less Bandwidth than I do.
There is something seriously wrong if you are paying for business class and only getting 240Kbps. I have regular plain-jane RR and get 366kbps constantly. Perhaps you should use that schnazy support to resolve that problem because for 90 bucks, it is a serious problem.
I completely agree. I do not blame the test for my failure or lack of knowledge, yet I do not believe that any written test is a good measure of ability, except a good measure of how well you can take a test.
Because I am a whole lot better now at coding and remember the test like I took it yesterday. It is not a good metric in determining programming skill. No written programming tests are.
The AP exams are not completely multiple choice. When I took it in '01, half the test was multiple choice, the other half was coding. We were supposed to use C++ to write functions that did matrix manipulations and sorts/searches using object-oriented concepts.
Needless to say, at the time, I was completely inept when it came to programming and thoroughly failed the exam. A few years later and I'm fairly close to graduating with my CS degree. Those exams are shit in my opinion.
Been using the X.org release since fedora put it in the development tree and have had no problems with the NVidia driver. It's definitely got to be a kernel issue because I am running 2.6.5 from kernel.org without a hitch.
Most of the Jobs that I have found require minimum work experience along with a degree. That level of work experience is typically 3-5 years. Please do not confuse learning to code on your own or any other such nonsense as work experience. Yes, it helps to learn on your own, but its much better to get away from the computer and get work experience, even if it's a 7 dollar an hour internship at the university.
Well, since you are already graduating, I hope you have work experience otherwise, it's going to be another 3-5 years before you can even hope of getting a job that makes those 4-5 years in school worth it.
I've got a year and a half left (till my BS) and I already have 3 years of experience in computational software development and 5 years for systems administration (mostly parallel development and design and deployment of beowulf systems). I got lucky in high school and grabbed an intership at a local manufacturer. Worked for their IT department doing piddly things, however, the entry on my resume and some dumb luck made future Jobs come to me.
I feel bad if you are getting this news too late. A friend of mine already graduated last semester and had little to no work experience. The best offer he got was an internship (internship??? the guy already graduated!) with IBM for around 12 bucks an hour to audit web code.
To answer your question: If you have no work experience, CNN claims that the average out-of-college CS degree holder will get a starting pay of around $48,000 a year. I call bullshit on that one and have a more conservative estimate of around $35,000 if you get lucky (it greatly depends on your location). At this point, you should just take what you can get and keep your eyes open for better opportunities. At this point, someone else is probably right behind you in the H.R. line, with his/her CS degree, drooling for that $10 an hour job.
If you have good work experience and have worked in a specialized field (not systems administration), the salary possibilities are endless if you know where to look. Accept nothing less than $50,000 or $60,000 if you know you're good, you have the experience to back it up, and you have sufficient funds to go a month or two without a job.
on a typical PC, writing out a 650 Meg ISO to disk. It'd take hardly any time at all, but during that time, your system would be completely unresponsive.
It's sad to see that PC hardware has to play catch-up to the amount of bandwidth, or will have to soon at least.
Quite true... I stand corrected. I was thinking of how aircraft can move along x,y,z (yes, with throttle) and forgot that the stick itself only moves along x,y.
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I can attest to this:
/home volume on a 3ware controlled array. Sometimes, we get those users that decide they need to write out their incremental data sets across the NFS mount... from 48 nodes. Sure, a parallel file system would be great, but from what we've seen, only GFS was close to production quality (and they just recently gpl'd it).
Our 48 Node beowulf has a
Anyway, that kind of load brought that head node (dual proc 1700+ MP) to its knees until we decided to rebuild it. Moving from the hardware controlled raid to linux's software raid completely resolved that problem.
Thats wonderful. I've about 70 win machines on a condor grid, some AMD boxes some P4 Dells. On 3 machines, SP4 completely hosed Add/Remove Programs and the control panel. There was something else even more serious but this was a while ago. I had to roll everything back to SP3 to maintain concurrency.
I'm a beowulf admin and deal mainly with linux so I am probably not the best choice when you want someone to admin a windows box. Maybe I screwed up somewhere?
Default Win2k install, nothing installed, sp4 update. 3 screwed machines. Ever heard of this?
That was great... poor Danzig, that guy from NSK was fucking huge though. However, Danzig is no bitch himself.
Good clip
to find text books at a book store that are of acceptable quality. From what I've seen, these "open source" books have a long, long way to go before anyone can even consider using them for their studies. For now, a few make decent desk references. However, most of the material, as of now, appears half-ass written, with very little content and poor explanations.
This is not to say that i hope they stop, on the contrary, I hope they continue this work but that they start to focus on the details, rather than just filling chapters and adding sections that don't get written for months on end.
I agree with your statement about the Bush Administration: This group has turned me from a centrist/conservative to a screaming liberal in the span of just two years (perhaps with the aid of some college philosophy courses ;), however I strongly disagree with your assessment that "Times have NOT changed... this WAS, and IS a free country"
Over the last 50 years, the rights of the citizens in this country have slowly disappeared. From the "Red Scare" and McCarthyism to the current topic of the Patriot Act, it is undeniable that the last 50 years have shredded the constitution provided us by this nation's founders.
A free country does not allow the government to pass laws that provide for the silent imprisonment and execution of its citizens, citizens who haven't even been convicted of a crime. A free country does not allow its private sector and capitalists to dictate domestic and foreign policy in their favor and to the disadvantage of the majority. A free country does not encourage the widening of gaps between social classes by promoting the elite and trampling and stifling the poor. A free country does not make its will dominate another sovereign country, regardless of their political system and certainly does not invade it without clear justification. A free country allows its citizens to hold its leaders accountable for their actions, actions that have caused the deaths of hundreds of your brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters and countless civilians overseas.
My friend, I have seen a free country, a country where two right-winged political parties do not dominate the political spectrum and national tickets, where peoples rights are preserved and social classes have been all but eliminated, a country where soft-money and corporate sponsorships are not permitted to "buy" elections. The U.S. is no longer a free country and it's high time something is done about it.
Sorry for the rant, but these times have gotten me in a sort of frenzy over the current state of things. Think about it. You don't have to agree, thats freedom, but believe you me, there are many that do and many more that want to see change.
This reminds me of the one poor soul that lives on the Beowulf list. He's probably the only guy that runs a Windows cluster. Occasionally, he'll post something and the entire list will either point out how absurd it is that he is running windows on a cluster or some other such nonsense. I think more Windows clusters will be a Good Thing, at least for this guy, so that he is no longer alone in the world ;)
Well, you have to admit, that was kind of obscure humor, but now that I get it, kudos to you. Sorry if I came back kind of harsh.
Yes, I know. A viola is a cousin of the violin. And I think I know what I think it means (do not comment on the last statement, it'll make you the fool). Pardon my spelling of voila, I'm a musician and viola comes naturally. Oh, and please spare me the elitism. Its not for you to point out anyone's foibles. By the way, there should be a period between word and I. That is a blantant example of a horrid comma splice.
There, how does it feel?
Make your own CD image (its really easy), add an rpm for pine (redhat 9's should work fine), add it to the install list, viola. Burn a new set of CDs and install. Your pine troubles are over.
I wish slashdot had a way to grep out gentoo fanboy posts. I'm really getting sick of them. You people think you are "hard-core" because you've compiled your distro from scratch, that you've saved, due to compiler optimizations, maybe 2 or 3 uSecs on execution time, and that your single emerge command simply wipes the floor with all the rest.
This story is about Fedora, not Gentoo. Gentoo seems pretty sweet, if you have a lot of time on your hands and perhaps no girlfriend. For people like me, Fedora is great. They are not playing catch up as you say, because these packages have actually been tested pretty thoroughly, unlike your emerged tar-balls that were instantaneously added to the repositories after the mirrors went live.
I'm not here to rag on your distro, I'm just sick of the elitism that the gentoo users wreak of when they post on slashdot.
Feeding the trolls here, but i never said they had to release it for free. They would have got my money, at least for a few of those titles.
You know what sucked though? Only a few of those games, based on the quake 3 engine, were ever made to run on linux despite the fact that the engine was. Damn game companies.
But I am probably grossly mistaken. ;)
From what I have read, Trent was supposedly involved in the design of the sound engine and most of the sampling that is part of the game (he was a CE or EE student at some point in the past). When you get the game, you will know if it was Trent or not.
When my old town first got cable broadband, the company, Cox, did not put any bandwidth restrictions on the connections, because not a lot of people were online at the time. We would constantly get 1MBps to 2MBps, like we had our own 10Mb connection straight to the internet. Later, they put limits in place. Here in tampa, the limit was 256KBps or a while. They recently raised it to around 366KBps and haven't raised the rates. Perhaps it does vary by region, but I feel bad for the guy, paying that kind of price and getting 1/3 less Bandwidth than I do.
The fact that you know a 'B' is a byte and a 'b' is a bit is quite impressive *cough*
Like anyone with half a brain couldn't tell what I meant... Don't be such a tight ass.
He's being ripped off. He should be getting at least 512KBps for that kind of cash. I had business class for a while and that's what I got.
There is something seriously wrong if you are paying for business class and only getting 240Kbps. I have regular plain-jane RR and get 366kbps constantly. Perhaps you should use that schnazy support to resolve that problem because for 90 bucks, it is a serious problem.
I completely agree. I do not blame the test for my failure or lack of knowledge, yet I do not believe that any written test is a good measure of ability, except a good measure of how well you can take a test.
Because I am a whole lot better now at coding and remember the test like I took it yesterday. It is not a good metric in determining programming skill. No written programming tests are.
The AP exams are not completely multiple choice. When I took it in '01, half the test was multiple choice, the other half was coding. We were supposed to use C++ to write functions that did matrix manipulations and sorts/searches using object-oriented concepts.
Needless to say, at the time, I was completely inept when it came to programming and thoroughly failed the exam. A few years later and I'm fairly close to graduating with my CS degree. Those exams are shit in my opinion.
Been using the X.org release since fedora put it in the development tree and have had no problems with the NVidia driver. It's definitely got to be a kernel issue because I am running 2.6.5 from kernel.org without a hitch.
I can see Darl right now...
"I believe we have only awakened a sleeping giant." - Adm. Yamamoto
IBM is fighting the good fight as we once did. Hopefully, Big Blue will make the enemy pay.
Most of the Jobs that I have found require minimum work experience along with a degree. That level of work experience is typically 3-5 years. Please do not confuse learning to code on your own or any other such nonsense as work experience. Yes, it helps to learn on your own, but its much better to get away from the computer and get work experience, even if it's a 7 dollar an hour internship at the university.
Well, since you are already graduating, I hope you have work experience otherwise, it's going to be another 3-5 years before you can even hope of getting a job that makes those 4-5 years in school worth it.
I've got a year and a half left (till my BS) and I already have 3 years of experience in computational software development and 5 years for systems administration (mostly parallel development and design and deployment of beowulf systems). I got lucky in high school and grabbed an intership at a local manufacturer. Worked for their IT department doing piddly things, however, the entry on my resume and some dumb luck made future Jobs come to me.
I feel bad if you are getting this news too late. A friend of mine already graduated last semester and had little to no work experience. The best offer he got was an internship (internship??? the guy already graduated!) with IBM for around 12 bucks an hour to audit web code.
To answer your question: If you have no work experience, CNN claims that the average out-of-college CS degree holder will get a starting pay of around $48,000 a year. I call bullshit on that one and have a more conservative estimate of around $35,000 if you get lucky (it greatly depends on your location). At this point, you should just take what you can get and keep your eyes open for better opportunities. At this point, someone else is probably right behind you in the H.R. line, with his/her CS degree, drooling for that $10 an hour job.
If you have good work experience and have worked in a specialized field (not systems administration), the salary possibilities are endless if you know where to look. Accept nothing less than $50,000 or $60,000 if you know you're good, you have the experience to back it up, and you have sufficient funds to go a month or two without a job.
on a typical PC, writing out a 650 Meg ISO to disk. It'd take hardly any time at all, but during that time, your system would be completely unresponsive.
It's sad to see that PC hardware has to play catch-up to the amount of bandwidth, or will have to soon at least.
Quite true... I stand corrected. I was thinking of how aircraft can move along x,y,z (yes, with throttle) and forgot that the stick itself only moves along x,y.