Re: HPC with Beoqulf

Hi,

There is a good book for you to follow, it gives lots of informations on how
to build the beowulf cluster. I don't know if there is a translation to it,
because it is from a brazilian researcher. The title is "Construindo
supercomputadores com Linux", author is "Marcos Pitanga".

Also there is a quick configuration cluster, I could say it can be beowulf,
the name is Pelican. You don't need to install it to run, but there is an
option for that.

Att,
Victor.

2011/1/14 Joan Marc Riera Duocastella <[email protected]>

>  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
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