Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
You might want to talk to the author of this: http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/schedule/events/6.en.html Reflections on Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD by Brooks Davis. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 If you receive something that says Send this to everyone you know, then please pretend you don't know me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
--- On Tue, 10/21/08, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED], FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 9:18 AM You might want to talk to the author of this: http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/schedule/events/6.en.html Reflections on Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD by Brooks Davis. From what i have read, Matt Olander and Brooks Davis are the foremost experts at cluster building on FreeBSD. However i believe a document needs to be written explaining in detailed steps how to do it, so the common user can do it. Obviously not every common man needs a cluster. In my case i am pitching the project of a big cluster to our University here in Honduras to run some kinds of apps we have, like a Trade Exchange Market Simulation written in Python we have about two years developing which we plan to run distributed across the cluster. Since I cannot attend that seminar, i will be expecting for at least the presentation to be posted. Gerardo Paredes Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 If you receive something that says Send this to everyone you know, then please pretend you don't know me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Gerardo Paredes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what i have read, Matt Olander and Brooks Davis are the foremost experts at cluster building on FreeBSD. However i believe a document needs to be written explaining in detailed steps how to do it, so the common user can do it. Obviously not every common man needs a cluster. In my case i am pitching the project of a big cluster to our University here in Honduras to run some kinds of apps we have, like a Trade Exchange Market Simulation written in Python we have about two years developing which we plan to run distributed across the cluster. Since I cannot attend that seminar, i will be expecting for at least the presentation to be posted. Actually, this was a presentation I attended last year. So the slides already exist. You can also grab their old paper at http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/ but this is a bit out-dated. My advice would be to try and contact Mr. Brooks Davis directly. If you can't find him, try and send an email to the organisers of BSDCan from http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/contact.php. I believe you should talk to Dan Langille on the BSDCan commitee http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/committee.php Good luck and have fun! Your project seems quite interesting :) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 If you receive something that says Send this to everyone you know, then please pretend you don't know me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
David Robillard wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Gerardo Paredes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what i have read, Matt Olander and Brooks Davis are the foremost experts at cluster building on FreeBSD. However i believe a document needs to be written explaining in detailed steps how to do it, so the common user can do it. Obviously not every common man needs a cluster. In my case i am pitching the project of a big cluster to our University here in Honduras to run some kinds of apps we have, like a Trade Exchange Market Simulation written in Python we have about two years developing which we plan to run distributed across the cluster. Since I cannot attend that seminar, i will be expecting for at least the presentation to be posted. Actually, this was a presentation I attended last year. So the slides already exist. You can also grab their old paper at http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/ but this is a bit out-dated. My advice would be to try and contact Mr. Brooks Davis directly. If you can't find him, try and send an email to the organisers of BSDCan from http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/contact.php. I believe you should talk to Dan Langille on the BSDCan commitee http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/committee.php Good luck and have fun! Your project seems quite interesting :) David It seems the same presentation was given at AsiaBSDCon 2007: it's linked to from http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/index.html The slides are at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-slides.pdf and the paper is at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-paper.pdf -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
Hello, i am interested in setting up a small cluster, of about 5 machines to show how this can work on a university environment. Its kind of a pitch to university authorities to show them how this work so they can think on investing top dollars on it. We have a bunch of workstations running FreeBSD, However as i been reading through the documentation, the canonical situacion would be a environment where the machines netboot over the server, get most of their partitions over NFS and have NIS installed so users can authenticate at the server and share resources available at the cluster. My question is, it is possible to just install SGE, grid Mathematica (or maybe MPI, open-MPI, a custom application), share the home directory over NFS, copy some ssh keys to the other nodes and run them like a cluster?. Please someone with more experience on this kind of install help me with a series of steps designed on how to get this running. Regards Gerardo Paredes __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:19:28 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster Hello, i am interested in setting up a small cluster, of about 5 machines to show how this can work on a university environment. Its kind of a pitch to university authorities to show them how this work so they can think on investing top dollars on it. We have a bunch of workstations running FreeBSD, However as i been reading through the documentation, the canonical situacion would be a environment where the machines netboot over the server, get most of their partitions over NFS and have NIS installed so users can authenticate at the server and share resources available at the cluster. not an answer to your question, but you might be interested by this http://mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/ might give you some insight into what you are looking for -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
--- On Mon, 10/20/08, Sean Cavanaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Sean Cavanaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 9:52 AM Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:19:28 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster Hello, i am interested in setting up a small cluster, of about 5 machines to show how this can work on a university environment. Its kind of a pitch to university authorities to show them how this work so they can think on investing top dollars on it. We have a bunch of workstations running FreeBSD, However as i been reading through the documentation, the canonical situacion would be a environment where the machines netboot over the server, get most of their partitions over NFS and have NIS installed so users can authenticate at the server and share resources available at the cluster. not an answer to your question, but you might be interested by this http://mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/ might give you some insight into what you are looking for -Sean Sean, the link you provided does a good job of helping someone understand the process involved in setting up a cluster, even if it doesn't provide detailed information in a HOW-TO like fashion. Then i guess is up to me to get going and ask questions where i get stuck. Maybe do the How-to documentation of my own in the process. Gerardo Paredes __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Gerardo Paredes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sean, the link you provided does a good job of helping someone understand the process involved in setting up a cluster, even if it doesn't provide detailed information in a HOW-TO like fashion. Then i guess is up to me to get going and ask questions where i get stuck. Maybe do the How-to documentation of my own in the process. Gerardo Paredes I would be very interested in any documentation you can come up with as you go forward with this project. I currently work in a bioinformatics organization that uses external HPC clusters, and I'd love to setup a small local cluster of our own some day. - Max ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:17:11 -0400 Maxim Khitrov wrote: I would be very interested in any documentation you can come up with as you go forward with this project. I currently work in a bioinformatics organization that uses external HPC clusters, and I'd love to setup a small local cluster of our own some day. Not a direct answer but there is a special maillist for the subject -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometime earlier I've got a very informative answers from it's archieves. WBR -- bsam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
