From becker at scyld.com Tue Oct 8 23:43:01 2002 From: becker at scyld.com (Donald Becker) Date: Tue Nov 9 01:14:20 2010 Subject: [Beowulf-announce] Call for Participation: Workshop on Linux Clusters for Super Computing (fwd) Message-ID: >>> The on-line registration is open. Submit you registration now! <<< http://www.nsc.liu.se/lcsc ============================================================ -- 3rd Annual WORKSHOP ON LINUX CLUSTERS FOR SUPER COMPUTING -- Clusters for High Performance Computing and GRID Solutions. 24-25 October 2002 Hosted by National Supercomputer Centre (NSC) Link?ping University Sweden ============================================================ The fast development of the processing power of high-end PCs and workstations together with the availability of open source software such as Linux have made it possible to build very cost efficient parallel computers. With the addition of high bandwidth and low latency networks PC-clusters are challenging conventional commercially available parallel computers. PC-clusters can yield orders of magnitude in price performance. Assembling a PC-cluster is, however, a non-trivial task due to the fast moving PC and workstation market as well as the rapid development of Linux and available tools for clustered computing. The aim of the workshop is to gather together people with experience of clusters and provide participants with an overview of state of the art of PC-clusters. The workshop will address the hardware and software issues encountered during the design process as well as some of the emerging application areas in which PC-cluster have been deployed. We are pleased to announce Thomas Sterling as the keynote speaker. Thomas Sterling is a Principal Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a Faculty Associate at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known for his development (with colleague Donald Becker) of Beowulf-class PC-cluster computing and as a leader of the National Petaflops Initiative in US. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o Parallel and distributed computing o Applications adapted for using parallel and distributed resources o Scalability issues, benchmarking and tuning o Software and tools for using and managing clusters o Grid technologies o Job scheduling strategies o Key application areas o Hardware technology developments In addition to invited talks, there will be tutorials (23 oct), vendor presentations, and birds-of-feathers (BOF). Workshop attenders have also the opportunity to participate in the inauguration of NSC's latest teraflop-scale cluster. The complete list of speakers and programme will be available at http://www.nsc.liu.se/lcsc/. If you wish to present your own cluster, GRID project, software development, give a talk on a topic related to clustered computing, or suggest a BOF, you are most welcome to contact Niclas Andersson (email: nican@nsc.liu.se, phone: +46 13 281464) From ballen at gravity.phys.uwm.edu Mon Oct 14 20:10:03 2002 From: ballen at gravity.phys.uwm.edu (Bruce Allen) Date: Tue Nov 9 01:14:20 2010 Subject: [Beowulf-announce] SMART disk testing utilities (smartmontools) In-Reply-To: <20010718071449.A15500@blueraja.scyld.com> Message-ID: New versions of smartctl and smartd have been released at: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ SMARTMONTOOLS contains two command-line utilities (smartctl, smartd) that control and monitor storage devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system build into ATA and SCSI Hard Drives. This is used to check the reliability of the hard drive and to predict drive failures. This is very useful on large clusters, because you can get early warning of impending drive failures, and do hardware-level drive testing while your system is up and running. These utilities were previously available in the smartsuite and ucsc-smartsuite packages. They have been upgraded to comply with ATA/ATAPI-5 standards, and now print additional information such as the self-test error logs of the disk. Bruce Allen