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Unfortunately we haven't done a gentoo cluster, though with portage |
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maintenance would be easy. I did want to comment on your processor choice. If |
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you choose quad core your only option currently is Intel clovertown. These |
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machines are power hungry. I would reccomend waiting for the opteron quad |
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core chips that will be comming out in 07. If your going dual core I would |
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reccomend opterons. They don't require the fully buffered dimms which from |
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our testing seem to draw about 15W per dimm. The other thing to consider is |
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the characteristics of your code, what we have seen from the Intel cpus is |
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jobs run quite well if they are serial jobs, however when running parallel |
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jobs the opterons still win out. |
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Just some food for thought .... |
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On Friday 01 December 2006 17:16, Bryan Green wrote: |
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> Hello all, |
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> I am looking for something of a survey of examples of Gentoo-driven |
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> clusters out there. If such a survey has been done, perhaps someone point |
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> me to it. But I would like to hear from others on the list about their |
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> clusters. |
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> |
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> I am in the process of advocating for using Gentoo on a new cluster that we |
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> will be building. The cluster will be a "hyperwall", meaning that each |
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> node will have graphics, forming a grid of displays for multi-parameter, |
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> multi-dimensional scientific visualization. There will also be several |
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> disk servers which will run Suse in order to get Lustre support (Lustre |
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> support on the client side will be OS-neutral when the current beta is |
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> officially released). In addition to graphics, the nodes will also be used |
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> for compute jobs (scientific), and may serve as a testbed for a production |
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> scientific computing environment. |
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> In the process of making my case, I've been asked what other examples there |
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> are of large Gentoo clusters. This cluster will be 128 nodes (dual socket, |
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> dual or quad core). Of particular interest are production and/or |
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> scientific environments - not so much database clusters, though all |
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> examples are of interest. Use of MPI is particularly relevant. Graphics |
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> clusters are also of interest of course. |
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> |
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> I'd be grateful for any feedback I get from others on the list about the |
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> clusters they maintain or use, and perhaps some comments about the efficacy |
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> of Gentoo in an environment where stability is very important, and how |
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> system administration compares to administration of a Suse or Redhat |
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> cluster. |
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> Thanks, |
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> -bryan |
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