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Monday Jul 28, 2008

sort in 7bit and 8bit

IHAC wrote to me that depend on which subnet he login to T5120 the timex sort file>file.out on /tmp give very different result;
one is about 8 sec
one is about 2. minute 50 sec
a factor of 21 difference.

Turnout that the locale is different in two way of login to the system one set LANG=C
one setto LNAG=en_US.utf8
the result for LANG=en_US is similar to LANG=C

Wednesday Jul 16, 2008

Flextronics IB switches

Flextronics provide some very inexpensive IB switches
infiniband for Mass Interesting article that talk about in expensive IB for HPC cluster

Tuesday Jul 15, 2008

3 socket AMD system

Base on today HT-1.0, it seems that 3 socket AMD 8xxx CPU with the 3 HT-links will be a very balance IO server
with 3 HT links, each CPU will have HT link to other CPU and one HT link to IO chipset.

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