Joshua mora acosta wrote:
Does anyone know what is the detailed plan for building that thing with 200
people in just 1 day?
Yep:
I am very curious to understand what things can be done in parallel, what
things are serialized from the point of view of installation, testing and
evaluation/assesment.
There will be several teams. Multiple 5-6 person teams unboxing nodes
from their shipping boxes and sorting the materials for recycling. A
couple cart runners going up and down the elevators into the data
center. Then, there will be 5-6 3 person teams racking nodes and doing
the cabling all at once. At the end of the train of people doing the
hardware, they'll be about 3-4 people coming along and installing the
nodes. (We use RedHat's kickstart and some special scripts we cooked
up.) Almost all of this process is parallelized (probably everything
but the lunch line.)
Once the nodes have a base install, they'll reboot and cfengine will
run to make them "real" nodes.
Even monitoring the progress,identifying critical tasks, balancing the
workforce, having several B,C plans in case plan A fails.
We have a project manager and a lot of staff that have been putting a
ton of time into this event.
And what is the final target, to run across the entire cluster HPL by the end
of the day?
To be running user jobs within 24 hours. We will do the benchmarking
later after all the DOA hardware has been fixed.
What is a day in here a business day or 24hours?
The cluster hardware will be done in eight hours, and the software
will simmer for up to 24 hours.
We have built out a beefy install infrastructure to support a lot of
simultaneous installs...
Joshua
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Received: Sat, 03 May 2008 10:27:20 AM PDT
From: John Leidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Thomas H Dr Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Purdue Supercomputer
>From the looks of their website, all their other clusters run linux.
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:41 -0400, Thomas H Dr Pierce wrote:
Dear Beowulf,
Purdue is building their own cluster. to create the 40th largest
supercomputer. I wonder what operating system they will chose to
use.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EJES2NGMF5LUAQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=207404139&_requestid=84418
And a youtube video on "Installation Day" !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzThRN4QJI
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