From: Justin Bronder <jsbronder@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-cluster@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-cluster] High-Availability Howto for Gentoo
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:18:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44387D07.1080509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <789d27b10604070830l52bb779em85e15979bb0fe733@mail.gmail.com>
Greetings,
I'm currently employed at a site with some Xserve G5's and a smattering
of PIII's.
I cannot comment on High Availability Clusters, but I'll be more then
willing to
discuss the HPC side of clusters.
Right now we primarily run OS X on the G5's, however work is in progress
to allow
job-submission time switching between OS X and Linux (Debian or Gentoo
currently,
others in the future possibly) based upon user-submitted requests.
As we run a variety of operating systems, I personally prefer to compile
the HPC-
orientated applications from source. Anyways, I noticed a request for
software
recommendations earlier in this thread, so here's a list of the first
things I
end up installing when we build a test/development cluster, along with
the versions I have running.
Torque (2.0.0p5)
Mpich (1.2.7)
Mpichgm (Myrinet support, based on 1.2.6 )
Mpiexec (0.80)
Atlas (3.7.11)
HPL (To test the install mainly)
We also find it nice to have server(s) providing:
LDAP
DHCP and related netbooting services. (We've written our own, highly
alpha stage right now).
NFS for home directories only. We've found numerous scalability
problems with diskless.
Of course the shameless plug for our MyPBS package is also required,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/my-pbs/
This is just a quick list of of what I think any documentation on a HPC
cluster needs to
cover at minimum. I'm by no means an expert, but I would like to offer
my help.
Hanni Ali wrote:
> Ok,
>
> I suggest we try to put the documentation together on gentoo-wiki.com
> <http://gentoo-wiki.com> I've always found this site an excellent
> resource.
>
> There are already two stubs which I feel we should build on and kyron
> has compiled an excellent list of programs if you follow the links.
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Index:HOWTO#Build_a_Gentoo_High_Performance_Cluster
>
> I suggest we start Build a Gentoo High Availability Cluster.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/cluster/
>
> This is the gentoo cluster page and we only have three How To's All of
> which have floors I've kept tabs on problems I've run into with the
> HPC howto and distcc howto. I feel we should keep openMosix separate
> and have a completely separate set of Howto's for that.
>
> My clusters are generally diskless nodes so I suggest we try to
> incorporate this howto into the gentoo-wiki
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml
> <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml>
>
> Though this also has it's fair share of difficulties.
>
> I'm prepared to share a certain amount of my work on this. It would be
> nice to make this documentation easily understandable for all and I'm
> always up for people adding where they run into problems and WHY into
> these sort of documents.
>
> I'm looking carefully at HA diskless nodes and ways in which to ensure
> redundancy if the master node fails. Suggestions on this would be
> welcomed.
>
> How many people would be interested in helping out with this. If
> you've read this far it must be because it's a Friday afternoon so
> anything can distract you!
>
> Cheers
>
> Hanni
>
>
--
Justin Bronder
University of Maine, Orono
Advanced Computing Research Lab
20 Godfrey Dr
Orono, ME 04473
www.clusters.umaine.edu
Mathematics Department
425 Neville Hall
Orono, ME 04469
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-07 11:18 [gentoo-cluster] High-Availability Howto for Gentoo Mathias Weigt
2006-04-07 11:39 ` Hanni Ali
2006-04-07 12:16 ` Jared Greenwald
2006-04-07 14:52 ` Bryan Stalcup
2006-04-07 15:30 ` Hanni Ali
2006-04-07 20:31 ` Jan Klopper
2006-04-11 6:57 ` Ramon van Alteren
2006-04-11 9:59 ` Hanni Ali
2006-04-11 13:17 ` Ramon van Alteren
2006-04-11 14:47 ` busby
2006-04-11 16:01 ` Hanni Ali
2006-04-11 16:13 ` busby
2006-04-11 16:38 ` Hanni Ali
2006-04-11 16:55 ` Ramon van Alteren
2006-04-11 18:40 ` busby
2006-04-11 20:56 ` Ramon van Alteren
2006-04-11 23:11 ` Dice R. Random
2006-04-12 0:59 ` Eric Thibodeau
2006-04-12 2:23 ` Dice R. Random
2006-04-11 16:10 ` Brady Catherman
2006-04-11 20:51 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-04-11 21:57 ` Brady Catherman
2006-04-11 22:02 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-04-11 20:36 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-04-09 3:18 ` Justin Bronder [this message]
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