[Beowulf] Are You Ready for "Intel Cluster Ready"

[Kozin, I (Igor)]

I've heard about it but was expecting it to be like a hardware spec (a la PC spec). Rather surprising to see so many software requirements. It's sort of understandable why Perl or Python (MPICH2/IntelMPI) are required. But Java, Tcl and even Python should be optional. The funny thing is we have a cluster which should comply (loads of Intel software) and yet every time I update Intel compilers the installers complain the libs are not supported (because it's Suse 10.1). Everything works fine. So what?

Igor


-----Original Message-----
From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org on behalf of Kevin Ball
Sent: Wed 27/06/2007 17:30
To: Douglas Eadline
Cc: Beowulf at beowulf.org
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Are  You Ready for "Intel Cluster Ready"
 
Wow... they require, on every node:

Java Runtime Environment
Perl
Python
Tcl
Kitchen Sink*

*(Okay, only figuratively)

But I guess we already knew 'lean and mean' is not something Intel
thinks about very often.

-Kevin


On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 06:30, Douglas Eadline wrote:
> Intel has announced their new "Cluster Ready"
> program. I have a short write-up with links on
> Cluster Monkey.
> 
> http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/204/1/
> 
> It is an Intel centric spec for clusters. A "good thing"
> in general I think, though I have concerns. (read the post)
> 
> Opinions ? (yes a dangerous but worthy question on this list!)
> 
> --
> Doug
> _______________________________________________
> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org
> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf

_______________________________________________
Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org
To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf