[Novalug] SouthEast LinuxFest

JRR energy.wwind at cox.net
Thu May 7 13:26:53 EDT 2009


JRR wrote;

    I went to the Linux meeting in Atlanta in October 2000.
    It was very interesting.  There was a Professor of Comp Sci  from 
Clemson who
    was very active with Beowolf machines and clusters.  Ghetto-wolf was 
my favorite.
    The existance of the NVIDIA Tesla board changes everything, 
including the relative
    strength of the internode communication vs the floating point flops 
in each node.
    Myrianet  ??  Myranet ??  is the fiber optic comms to beat. Sky-net 
is also a major
    player and they're in Reston......

Beartooth wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm also thinking about it and will be leaving from Reston.
>> Dropping in on Beartooth sounds like fun :)
>>     
>
>  	Y'all come!
>
>  	There are several on this list that've done it. Never 
> many at once, but if need be, we can put up at least as many as 
> are willing to ride five hours in two cars.
>
>  	Just give me a little lead on dietary requirements. How 
> many don't eat pork, or don't eat wild meat, or don't eat meat at 
> all. (Jo doesn't.) And btw, I'm the cook.
>
>   
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