One of us. One of us. On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 at 15:41, Will Dennis <wden...@nec-labs.com> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > > > I thought I’d give a brief introduction, and see if this list is a good > fit for my questions that I have about my HPC-“ish” infrastructure... > > > > I am a ~30yr sysadmin (“jack-of-all-trades” type), completely self-taught > (B.A. is in English, that’s why I’m a sysadmin :-P) and have ended up > working at an industrial research lab for a large multi-national IT company > (http://www.nec-labs.com). In our lab we have many research groups (as > detailed on the aforementioned website) and a few of them are now using > “HPC” technologies like Slurm, and I’ve become the lead admin for these > groups. Having no prior background in this realm, I’m learning as fast as I > can go :) > > > > Our “clusters” are collections of 5-30 servers, all collections bought > over years and therefore heterogeneous hardware, all with locally-installed > OS (i.e. not trad head-node with PXE-booted diskless minions) which is as > carefully controlled as I can make it via standard OS install via Cobbler > templates, and then further configured via config management (we use > Ansible.) Networking is basic 10GbE between nodes (we do have Infiniband > availability on one cluster, but it’s fell into disuse now since the > project that has required it has ended.) Storage is one or more traditional > NFS servers (some use ZFS, some not.) We have within the past few years > adopted Slurm WLM for a job-scheduling system on top of these collections, > and now are up to three different Slurm clusters, with I believe a fourth > on the way. > > > > My first question for this list is basically “do I belong here?” I feel > there’s a lot of HPC concepts it would be good for me to learn, so as I can > improve the various research group’s computing environments, but not sure > if this list is for much larger “true HPC” environments, or would be a good > fit for a “HPC n00b” like me... > > > > Thanks for reading, and let me know your opinions :) > > > > Best, > > Will > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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