One of our developers is using openSuSE 11.2 as his desktop machine and reported that xemacs from RPM xemacs-21.5.29.b604d235f028-1.1.1.x86_64 wasn’t working. As soon as you start it, the status line at the bottom displays: Loading this file requires xemacs, (null(function-max-args ‘throw)) I goggled that and found a thread on the opensuse forums recommending we: zypper in […]
I’m building a cluster of 25 machines at work. Trying to get the Infiniband stuff to work on them – a dev found an annomoly in his benchmarking numbers and asked me to verify his work and look for trouble and so – I did. While I was doing it, I found some other users […]
Just built a cluster of 25 Dell systems for our developers. These are Dell 1435SC systems, each with a pair of Dell 1435SC and 8 GB RAM. We installed openSUSE 10.3 on them all, added the Ganglia gmond and also the OpenIB infiniband successor OFED. Handed them off to our developers to certify and they […]