The Official TeAm Anandtech BEOWULF Thread. Donations Welcome.

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: LANMAN
Finally!!

An appointment with the local electrican was confirmed! (Beginning Next week)
Pics when it's finished too!

100 Amp service to the BEOWULF!

Two Double plug outlets to run everything and anything!!

JUST WAIT BBR... you'll have another Big Brother on the block... VERY SOON!!

--LANMAN

 

[TofBnT]

Can't wait.

 

[aberant]

bring it on ! couldn't come at a better time

 

[Mardeth]

Woohoo!

Finally some action in my favourite thread! I hope my 500MHz Celeron is doing some work.

 

[Corsairpro]

519) TA_Beowulf 2 0 0 0 45 8 0 7 62 2294 7.9

7.9 / day... I assume thats not the full power of the wulf right?

 

[lobadobadingdong]

what's the current count on parts for the cluster?
I have a 10/100 nic and an unknown apg card that can be put to good use if we (TeAm) need it.

 

[MoFunk]

Originally posted by: LANMAN
Finally!!

An appointment with the local electrican was confirmed! (Beginning Next week)
Pics when it's finished too!

100 Amp service to the BEOWULF!

Two Double plug outlets to run everything and anything!!

JUST WAIT BBR... you'll have another Big Brother on the block... VERY SOON!!

--LANMAN

Well that is great news. What is the current need for this. I have various parts laying around to offer up! Not sure what what I have is good or needed but can give what I have.

 

[cthulhu]

I just found this thread. I've got a couple of heatsinks w/ fans and a couple of case fans if they are needed. PM me if they are needed.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I just now saw this thread. How much more is needed?

Is there an estimate on how much money would be needed to donate in order to have this running? If we got a total amount and split it up among 100 or 200 SETI@home users, it shouldn't be that much.

 

[Spacehead]

AgaBooga,
Stats for the beowulf can be found here(when working) & here. Ack!, only one WU this week

Lots of info & pics can be found at the TA Support website.
You can use the not-so-great search engine to earn $$$ towards the project though

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

The website doesn't explain how much is needed to finish off this project or to atleast finish half of this project yet. How much is needed?

What kind of connection will it be on? Maybe we could host a game or two on one and get some donations or something.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: Spacehead
AgaBooga,
Stats for the beowulf can be found here(when working) & here. Ack!, only one WU this week

Err, and probably only 200 or so this year. Need those w/u's now more than ever.

 

[Assimilator1]

Check the stats again ,its done 3 today

LANMAN
Update?

 

[Vich]

I just stumbled upon this thread can anyone summarize quickly the developments of this project? Thanks

-Rich

 

[LANMAN]

The 4 outlet power box for behind the racks was finished a few days ago. While the electricans were working I had to take most of the rack apart so they had room to work. (HEAVY when all motherboards are loaded)
I have :camera:'s of the improvements to include the migration of eliminating a old bus panel to a modern breaker panel. (Shux you have PM)

Since I had some time on my hands I started some preventive maintenance cleaning heatsink fans and power supply fans.
The other hardware I was able to aquire was a 12 outlet power rail (from a server cabinet) that I will place behind the racks.

I'll be using a jump drive to transfer the Q to the proxy, until I have enough funds to purchase a WAP. (How sweet that will be!! ) The added electrical work ran $234.00 but I have that covered for the team. Due to some of the wu times with a few older boards, I'm trying to find good deals on mobo's that have decent CPU speeds with integrated LAN/video. Ideas?

I've set aside a few hundred dollars/month for power, but we'll see what my budget can handle and of course how fast those machines crank up the meter. :Q The electrican assure me we have at least 60A's of service, so we'll give it a 30 day burn in no matter what the cost!

I think living in the central part of the US, we always seem to be last in line for everything to include the aftershock of the economy.
Anyone else think the same? Even in the IT field, I'm sure watching my bread/bacon incase I get the pick slip.

--LANMAN

 

[Vich]

So what is beowulf now, how many CPU's?

And what exactly is beowulf just a ton of computers connected to eachother?


-Rich

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: Vich
So what is beowulf now, how many CPU's?

And what exactly is beowulf just a ton of computers connected to eachother?


-Rich

Pretty much.
It's my understanding that a true beowulf cluster would process one S@H work unit with it's several processors. But SETI isn't designed to do that, as it's WU's are already split into the WU's we recieve. So they just kept the name & called it a "beowulf".

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Spacehead

Originally posted by: Vich
So what is beowulf now, how many CPU's?

And what exactly is beowulf just a ton of computers connected to eachother?

-Rich

Pretty much.
It's my understanding that a true beowulf cluster would process one S@H work unit with it's several processors. But SETI isn't designed to do that, as it's WU's are already split into the WU's we recieve. So they just kept the name & called it a "beowulf".

If a distributed application is designed with a close group of systems on a high-speed network, it will use specially-designed message passing APIs, and will be coded to take maximum advantage of a cluster of systems. In this case, the cluster would be a true "Beowulf" (if I understand correctly).

In most cases, though, compatibility with existing applications is necessary, and sometimes the code isn't available to rewrite those applications to use the messaging APIs and run in a "Beowulf cluster" fashion. Then, an operating system like Mosix (based on Linux) can be used; it will manage a clustered group of systems, moving processes from one to another to balance the load. Unfortunately, this only works if the application is already heavily multithreaded. In a DC-specific example, one could have one "master" system that would run x number of copies of the DC application. The Mosix OS would take care of distributing those copies around the network to fill all idle CPUs.

In this particular case, we're not running any special OS (as far as I know), and the application certainly isn't cluster-aware, so it's just being called a "Beowulf" because it's a cool term to use.

 

[Vich]

Ahhh thanks for the detailed explanation! :beer:

 

[Assimilator1]

Thanks for the update LANMAN

That's some serious work you've got going on there! ,and are you power bills really going to be a few hundred dollars/month!?:Q ,how much of that is for Enterprise?

 

[LANMAN]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Thanks for the update LANMAN

That's some serious work you've got going on there! ,and are you power bills really going to be a few hundred dollars/month!?:Q ,how much of that is for Enterprise?

I just put Engineer's SLOT 1 mobo into a case and the hard drive I was using seems to be problematic. It will load the OS without any problems (at least none displayed) but then upon login the machine would lockup. I'm going to have to start over tonight with a different harddrive and reload the OS.

As far as the Enterprise, yes. With that many mobo's running, most dual CPU's, it's not uncommon to draw some serious power bills. Plus the two person pc's/firewall I already have running.


--LANMAN

 

[Shuxclams]

I will post the new pictures as soon as I get them.

Great to hear updates on the project. Will be very interesting to see what happens with BOINC and this.


Now how do we continue to raise $$ for the power bills?









SHUX

 

[Shuxclams]

New Pictures added!












SHUX

 

[LANMAN]

Whoo hoo!!

--LANMAN

 

[Mardeth]

Im just wondering, are the machines on yet?