Looking for speakers on High Performance Computing at GTALUG

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 05:11:13PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 04:28:52PM -0500, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> >> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> > Please tell me you meant s/Distrusted/Distributed/g.
> >>
> >> *Blow face in shame* Yes.. Would you like to do the talk on
> >> Distributed Programming?
> 
> Actually, I really liked that substitution!  It seems mighty evocative
> to me of some of the troublesome aspects of it :-).
> 
> > I wouldn't consider myself qualified for it.  I know in involves openMPI
> > and such, but I haven't done any.  I do love those systems though.
> >
> > I am still wondering what a distrusted filesystem would be like.  Does the
> > application have to assume the filesystem can't be trusted and add all
> > sorts of redundancy, error correction and checksums itself?
> 
> I presume that he meant "distributed filesystem" here, as well, which
> would mean stuff like:
> - Lustre
> - GFS, GFS2
> - OCFS

I know that's what he meant.  I still was wondering what a distrusted
filesystem would look like.  Perhaps NFS or CIFS would come to mind. :)

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