Conversation with #inferno at Fri Jul 24 03:15:54 2015 on powerman@chat.freenode.net (irc) (03:15:55) #inferno: Topic for #inferno set by anth at 19:45:51 on 04/07/15 (04:27:16) aap_ [~aap@x55b5fc15.dyn.telefonica.de] entered the room. (04:30:20) aap left the room (quit: Ping timeout: 246 seconds). (04:30:29) rogpeppe1 left the room (quit: Quit: Konversation terminated!). (06:37:16) doublec: anth_x: true (06:37:52) doublec: anth_x: the limbo execution is single threaded I guess but can spawn native threads to do various blocking operations (09:55:40) aap_ is now known as aap (11:34:53) rogpeppe1 [~rog@host-92-30-184-65.as13285.net] entered the room. (11:49:49) MrVandelay: doublec: Yeah I was briefly considering that (12:04:20) rogpeppe1 left the room (quit: Quit: Konversation terminated!). (12:04:36) rogpeppe1 [~rog@host-92-30-184-65.as13285.net] entered the room. (12:09:21) bjorkintosh: what are my thoughts? (12:09:43) bjorkintosh: i believe there's a bit of work ahead :) (12:35:16) MrVandelay: Right (12:35:46) MrVandelay: It seems, to me, that Inferno and Plan 9 are really cool. But perhaps more suited to a few powerful computers and a bunch of thin clients (12:35:58) MrVandelay: rather than to run on a cluster (12:36:51) MrVandelay: bjorkintosh: I'm looking into Apache/Berkeley Spark at the moment. Which is interesting, but big data-oriented (12:37:26) MrVandelay: I'd love to have MOSIX basically. But MOSIX doesn't run on ARM. :-( an SSI would be a lot ofun (12:37:31) bjorkintosh: beowulf? (12:37:39) MrVandelay: (PS: was that away/back announcement sent to the channel?) (12:37:53) bjorkintosh: didn't see anything. (12:40:33) MrVandelay: That's good (12:41:16) MrVandelay: Weechat showed me an away/back message that looked like those annoying public away announements (12:41:28) MrVandelay: I'm glad it isn't posted to the channels. I hate that. (13:08:34) MrVandelay: Yeah it's a beowulf cluster, I suppose you could say, it's also an Aiyara cluster (13:12:33) MrVandelay: Aiyara and Beowulf clusters are more or less the same with the main differences being that Aiyara clusters are built with inexpensive commodity SoC's (as opposed to regular desktop computers), are designed to process Big Data rather than high performance computing and have low-power and low-heat requirements (13:13:16) MrVandelay: Mine is kind of in-between the two as I do build with SoC's and they are low-power and low-heat and so fulfill 2/3 requirements. Yet, I don't want to design it to crunch big data. (13:16:10) MrVandelay: I am not under the delusion of creating some sort of super high performance computer with this cluster, since it's ARM. But I would like to scale up the performance of the boards by clustering them. Like with MOSIX (13:16:56) MrVandelay: I could buy a single Intel i7-cpu system and it would likely be faster than what I'd achieve from clustering these, but I am also doing it for learning MPICH and because I just want an inexpensive cluster for fun. (15:26:33) Fish- left the room (quit: Quit: WeeChat 1.2). (15:27:17) Fish- [~Fish@89.225.240.194] entered the room. (17:18:45) MrVandelay left the room (quit: Ping timeout: 240 seconds). (18:25:32) MrVandelay [~nox@94.254.51.247] entered the room. (18:47:00) MrVandelay left the room. (19:05:29) The account has disconnected and you are no longer in this chat. You will automatically rejoin the chat when the account reconnects.