Re: [SSI-users] ssi on podcast

[Vincent D. <di...@xs...>]

There are no active developers in OpenSSI.
Last modification is from many years ago and that was a TINY  
modification.

On Aug 26, 2012, at 10:03 PM, Scott Walters wrote:

> The developers don't seem to monitor this list at all.  Try the
> OpenSSI developer's list if you want to talk to them.  Mostly this
> list is active when someone needs help setting up OpenSSI and then
> dies down once they're up and running.
>
> Or you could have a podcast interview with trolls ;)
>
> Cheers,
> -scott
>
> On 8/26/12, Brock Palen <br...@um...> wrote:
>> On Aug 26, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>> OpenSSI doesn't work at HPC machines as it doesn't support  
>>> Infiniband nor
>>> other HPC type connections.
>>
>> You are making the assumption that HPC only means massive parallel  
>> MPI jobs
>> or large OpenMP jobs.  On the other hand I know of a group on  
>> campus that
>> just needs to run many serial jobs and uses Mosix as their  
>> platform on a few
>> hundred cores.  What is the difference between 1000 core parallel  
>> job, and
>> 1000 serial jobs?
>>
>> Our local HPC resource that I admin is 12000 cores and only about  
>> half of it
>> has IB, the rest is Ethernet.
>>
>>>
>>> AFAIK it just supports TCP.
>>> Furthermore it's total outdated and not maintained.
>>
>> This would be a problem and thus makes it non-useful for new  
>> adopters of the
>> software?  We can pass on OpenSSI if it is dead.
>>
>>>
>>> As for true SSI it also lacks crucial features like memory  
>>> migration of
>>> shared memory.
>>> Know another way to run parallel using multiple processes?
>>>
>>> Everyone uses shared memory for that of course.
>>
>> We did talk to the creator of ScaleMP, not open but this is what our
>> listeners asked to compare OpenSSi to:
>> http://www.rce-cast.com/Podcast/rce-65-vsmp-scalemp.html
>>
>>>
>>> So what do you mean with 'aimed' at HPC?
>>
>> Our listener base is probably mostly admins and some users and  
>> developers
>> mixed in there. We like informing them of anything that could help  
>> them in
>> their job.
>>
>>>
>>> That's a different league you know...
>>>
>>> On Aug 26, 2012, at 8:49 PM, Brock Palen wrote:
>>>
>>>> We host a podcast aimed at the HPC community at rce-cast.com
>>>>
>>>> We had some listeners request that we cover OpenSSI on the show.
>>>> Is this something a developer or two of OpenSSi would be  
>>>> interested in
>>>> doing?  If so contact me off list and we can set this up.  It  
>>>> takes about
>>>> an hour over phone or VoiP.
>>>>
>>>> If you have any suggestion for show topics please let me know!
>>>>
>>>> Brock Palen
>>>> www.umich.edu/~brockp
>>>> CAEN Advanced Computing
>>>> br...@um...
>>>> (734)936-1985
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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