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How is your project comming along? |
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Ive built a small start of a cluster. 4 P4 machines (3 nodes) diskless config. |
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Building some of the scheduling apps now. |
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On Friday 27 January 2006 1:27 pm, Eric Thibodeau wrote: |
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> I started the aformentionned thread a month or so back. Now things are |
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> getting on a roll. Thanks to Jimmy Rosen and Wilhelm Meier, I am presently |
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> writing up two documents to try to make this as clear and simple as |
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> possible for us Gentoo users: |
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> Configuring a client for diskless operation (SSI): |
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> http://wiki.neuralbs.com/index.php/Gentoo_Diskless_Client |
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> Configuring a server as a Beowulf headnode for such SSI clients with a |
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> selection of management/performance tools: |
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> http://wiki.neuralbs.com/index.php/Installing_Gentoo_as_a_Beowulf_Head_node |
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> I presently mostly ennumerate packages. My intention is to explicit a |
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> typical configuration for each component. Ideally, I will/would create a |
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> meta-ebuild that would pull most fo these tools and pre-configure most of |
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> the config files using a combination of scripts/global config file sourced |
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> by the script. |
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> Some of the aspects which will be eating up most of my time: |
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> ebuild for OpenMPI |
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> ebuild for lam-mpi 6.x (an expliocit requirement by my department, no |
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> comments on this please...unless you already have an ebuild ;) ) |
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> ...learn how to configure all these tools to interact correctly together. |
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> Obviously, any comments/contributions are more than welcommed! ;) |
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> -- |
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> Eric Thibodeau |
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> Neural Bucket Solutions Inc. |
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> T. (514) 736-1436 |
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> C. (514) 710-0517 |
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