Hello OSCAR users This not a technical question, but an opinion and advice request to our fellows in the field.
We've had a very rewarding experience with OSCAR so far and have had about 2 and a half years in building, maintaining, securing, and of course using our cluster. We have noticed that here in South Africa, many groups of scientists, large and small, are realizing that compute clusters could help their science a lot, but there is very little communication of common experience or "best-methods" in the community. Many groups seem to be overwhelmed by the amount of "hype" products and varied approaches to computing and are either too bewildered or "ignorant" (in the nicest sense of the word) to know where to start. To remedy the situation, we are thinking of running a short 3-4 day workshop here in Cape Town in order to share information and create awareness within the SA cluster community. The goals of this workshop are 1) to jump start the high performance computing community within SA 2) to create forums for communication within that community 3) to create awareness of applications and solutions within HPC 4) to stimulate student interest, development and activity in the field of high performance computing for physics applications. My questions to the OSCAR community are 1) What did you wish you knew when you started out building your cluster ? 2) What hardware / software configuration do you use and why ? We're interested in discussing everything from chipset to network card to OS... 3) Did you worry about securing your system and if so a) again, what do you wish you knew then that you knew now ? b) If you were compromised, would you share your experience with us ? 4) What do you see as "the next big thing" in clusters and high performance computing in general ? 5) If you were to teach someone the basics of building a cluster, where would you start ? Thanks bruce and mark -- Bruce Becker UCT-CERN Research Center - University of Cape Town Room 405, R.W. James Building, University Avenue North Private Bag RONDEBOSCH 7700 tel :(w) +27 21 650 3356 | (m) +27 82 537 9425 | (f) +27 21 650 3342 WEB :http://hep.phy.uct.ac.za/~becker | AIM : brucellino "Viel hilft viel" ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
