Thanks to the Rocks Cluster Distribution developers, participants of its mailing list, Reuti and this mailing list, I have almost completed installing and customizing a test cluster with Rocks 6.1 (x86_64). It has 1 front end, 2 login nodes (no round robin DNS or anything fancy like that), 1 NAS node (with a pair of 2 TB drives in RAID1) and 8 compute nodes (2 in short.q and 6 in long.q). More details about this cluster in
http://wigner.research.mtu.edu/ I have been using this (and its previous incarnations as wigner.it built using Rocks 5.4.2 and later with 6.0) as a sand box for an upcoming bigger (the biggest by Michigan Tech's standards) HPC cluster as well as teaching computational methods and HPC related courses in Physics and Mathematical Sciences. The following links under 'WIGNER' in the left menu News 01. Account Request 02. Access 03. Available Resources 04. Job Submission 05. FAQs 06. List of Publications along with 'HPC Monitor' link under 'RESEARCH COMPUTING' are publicly accessible. If any of you are interested in setting up a similar website for your institution/organization (with or without using Git to manage revisions) and/or implementing features there in (such as Google Maps in 'List of Publications') and/or compiling/installing any of the software listed in 'Available Resources' [and integrating them with the (Sun) Grid Engine queuing system], please let me know. I'll be more than happy to share the information. Best regards, g -- Gowtham, PhD Information Technology Services Adj. Assistant Professor, Physics Michigan Technological University (906) 487/3593 http://www.it.mtu.edu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
