[Beowulf] recommendations on ARM distro?

[C Bergström]

but why? Do you want a real production setup or just fun or research?

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Jonathan Aquilina <jaquilina at eagleeyet.net>
wrote:

> Was actually thinking of a clustered server setup using 64bit arm board if
> possible
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> On 2016-05-15 09:25, cbergstrom at pathscale.com wrote:
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> Let me backup.. what's your goal?
> Fun project using 32bit ARM?
> ... ARMv8 aka ARM64 aka AArch64?
> Actual work not using Intel?
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> *From: *jaquilina
> *Sent: *Sunday, May 15, 2016 14:55
> *To: *cbergstrom at pathscale.com; Carlos Linares Lopez
> *Cc: *beowulf at beowulf.org
> *Subject: *Re: [Beowulf] recommendations on ARM distro?
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> What embedded boards would you recommend instead?
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> Sent from Samsung tablet.
> -------- Original message --------
> From: cbergstrom at pathscale.com
> Date: 15/05/2016 08:51 (GMT+01:00)
> To: Jonathan Aquilina <jaquilina at eagleeyet.net>, Carlos Linares Lopez <
> clinares at inf.uc3m.es>
> Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] recommendations on ARM distro?
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> Imho a waste of time unless you're just doing a feasibility research
> project.
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> Lame int, low FP, low core density and what networking ‎is available..
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> *From: *Jonathan Aquilina
> *Sent: *Sunday, May 15, 2016 14:45
> *To: *Carlos Linares Lopez
> *Cc: *beowulf at beowulf.org
> *Subject: *Re: [Beowulf] recommendations on ARM distro?
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> What is everyone's thoughts on raspi's for a cluster?
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> On 2016-05-12 21:58, Carlos Linares Lopez wrote:
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> My first e-mail in the list, ...something I finally understand! :)
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> I have a small cluster of 3 odroid u3 running Unbuntu 14.04 LTS (I do
> have to update it these days to 16.04). I use condor and it works very
> nicely
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> You can see a short demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QPX50u4rg
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> El 12/5/16 a las 21:09, C Bergström escribió:
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> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Mark Hahn <hahn at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
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> Hi all,
> we have a (tiny) experimental ARM box - based on Cavium ThunderX, but have
> run into basic issues with distros (ie, ARM+ldap+ubuntu=fail).
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> If you're using ARM (on something bigger than a RPi), what distro are you
> using?
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> I don't have 1st hand experience with the combination you're
> referencing above, but peanut gallery comments
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> 1) I'd encourage you to retry the default Cavium provided OS - I
> realize that the package manager may not be fun, but they have thus
> far been good about software support for our needs
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> 2) Fedora has put quite a bit of effort into their AArch64 distro
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> I'm happy to connect you to people @ARM or @Cavium which is likely a
> better support channel for critical software like this.
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