Re: HPC with Beoqulf

Hi,

Check this out :
http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar

OSCAR allows users, regardless of their experience level with a *nix 
environment, to install a Beowulf type 
<http://beowulf.org/overview/faq.html> high performance computing 
cluster. It also contains everything needed to administer and program 
this type of HPC cluster. OSCAR's flexible package management system has 
a rich set of pre-packaged applications and utilities which means you 
can get up and running without laboriously installing and configuring 
complex cluster administration and communication packages. It also lets 
administrators create customized packages for any kind of distributed 
application or utility, and to distribute those packages from an online 
package repository, either on or off site.


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On 01/14/2011 10:05 AM, Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Friday 14 January 2011 09:56:43 Patrick Schmid wrote:
>> If I understood it correct, the Beowulf project is just a bundle of
>> software to build a cluster.
>> So I'm referring to some software which allows me to build a Linux HPC.
> Yes and no :)
>
> You first need to identify what you want/need:
>
> * what is the (typical) problem you want to solve?
> * what software do you need for that, do you need a batch scheduler or do you
> have very few users which work at the same place and share the cluster without
> technical measures?
> * think about the OS (Debian is a good choice here ;))
> * Think about the compute hardware, you probably need a login node, execute
> nodes and a file server, do you need many local cores or are the problems too
> large to fit into a few nodes? Then you need to look into networking
> (Infiniband or high performance Ethernet), is the software susceptible to
> latency and/or bandwidth available......
>
> You see there are MANY questions to look at first, before you even want to
> start installing the machines :)
>
> Try describing a "typical" problem, the sizes involved, that may help a lot.
>
> Cheers
>
> Carsten
>
>