It should also be pointed out that the early Beowulf community was largely composed of engineers, computer scientists, biologists, chemists, and physicists. Of course all technical backgrounds, but with a common goal -- cheaper, better, faster.
By definition the Beowulf community (1) has always been very welcoming. New ideas and diversity have been our strength. -- Doug (1) I am just now trying to define what that Beowulf Community is, what it does, and what it can do in the future. More to follow. > "Many employers look for people who studied humanities and learned IT by > themselves, for their wider appreciation of human values." > > Mark Burgess > > https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/jesa_0201_issue.pdf > > On 2/23/19 4:30 PM, Will Dennis wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I thought Id 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, thats why Im 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 >> Ive become the lead admin for these groups. Having no prior >> background in this realm, Im 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 >> its 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 theres a lot of HPC concepts it would be good for me to learn, >> so as I can improve the various research groups 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 > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Doug _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
