<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>What embedded boards would you recommend instead?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from Samsung tablet.</div></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: cbergstrom@pathscale.com </div><div>Date: 15/05/2016 08:51 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: Jonathan Aquilina <jaquilina@eagleeyet.net>, Carlos Linares Lopez <clinares@inf.uc3m.es> </div><div>Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org </div><div>Subject: Re: [Beowulf] recommendations on ARM distro? </div><div><br></div></div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Imho a waste of time unless you're just doing a feasibility research project.</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lame int, low FP, low core density and what networking is available..</div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Jonathan Aquilina</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, May 15, 2016 14:45</div><div><b>To: </b>Carlos Linares Lopez</div><div><b>Cc: </b>beowulf@beowulf.org</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Beowulf] recommendations on ARM distro?</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<p>What is everyone's thoughts on raspi's for a cluster?</p>
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<p>On 2016-05-12 21:58, Carlos Linares Lopez wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">My first e-mail in the list, ...something I finally understand! :)<br> <br> I have a small cluster of 3 odroid u3 running Unbuntu 14.04 LTS (I do<br> have to update it these days to 16.04). I use condor and it works very<br> nicely<br> <br> You can see a short demo here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QPX50u4rg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QPX50u4rg</a><br> <br> <br> <br> El 12/5/16 a las 21:09, C Bergström escribió:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Mark Hahn <<a href="mailto:hahn@mcmaster.ca">hahn@mcmaster.ca</a>> wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Hi all,<br> we have a (tiny) experimental ARM box - based on Cavium ThunderX, but have<br> run into basic issues with distros (ie, ARM+ldap+ubuntu=fail).<br> <br> If you're using ARM (on something bigger than a RPi), what distro are you<br> using?</blockquote>
I don't have 1st hand experience with the combination you're<br> referencing above, but peanut gallery comments<br> <br> 1) I'd encourage you to retry the default Cavium provided OS - I<br> realize that the package manager may not be fun, but they have thus<br> far been good about software support for our needs<br> <br> 2) Fedora has put quite a bit of effort into their AArch64 distro<br> ------------<br> I'm happy to connect you to people @ARM or @Cavium which is likely a<br> better support channel for critical software like this.<br> _______________________________________________<br> Beowulf mailing list, <a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org">Beowulf@beowulf.org</a> sponsored by Penguin Computing<br> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit <a href="http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf">http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf</a></blockquote>
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