A Transputer cluster? Squeeee! I know John Taylor (formerly Meiko/Quadrics) very well. Perhaps send me a picture off-list please?
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 06:55, Richard Edwards <e...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Hi John > > No doom and gloom. > > It's in a purpose built workshop/computer room that I have; 42U Rack, > cross draft cooling which is sufficient and 32AMP Power into the PDU’s. The > equipment is housed in the 42U Rack along with a variety of other machines > such as Sun Enterprise 4000 and a 30 CPU Transputer Cluster. None of it > runs 24/7 and not all of it is on at the same time, mainly because of the > cost of power :-/ > > Yeah the Tesla 1070’s scream like a banshee….. > > I am planning on running it as power on, on demand setup, which I already > do through some HP iLo and APC PDU Scripts that I have for these machines. > Until recently I have been running some of them as a vSphere cluster and > others as standalone CUDA machines. > > So that’s one vote for OpenHPC. > > Cheers > > Richard > > On 21 Aug 2019, at 3:45 pm, John Hearns via Beowulf <beowulf@beowulf.org> > wrote: > > Add up the power consumption for each of those servers. If you plan on > installing this in a domestic house or indeed in a normal office > environment you probably wont have enough amperage in the circuit you > intend to power it from. > Sorry to be all doom and gloom. > Also this setup will make a great deal of noise. If in a domestic setting > put it in the garage. > In an office setting the obvious place is a comms room but be careful > about the ventilation. > Office comms rooms often have a single wall mounted air conditioning unit. > Make SURE to run a temperature shutdown script. > This air con unit WILL fail over a weekend. > > Regarding the software stack I would look at OpenHPC. But that's just me. > > > > > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 06:09, Dmitri Chubarov <dmitri.chuba...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> this is a very old hardware and you would have to stay with a very >> outdated software stack as 1070 cards are not supported by the recent >> versions of NVIDIA Drivers and old versions of NVIDIA drivers do not play >> well with modern kernels and modern system libraries.Unless you are doing >> this for digital preservation, consider dropping 1070s out of the equation. >> >> Dmitri >> >> >> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 06:46, Richard Edwards <e...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >> >>> Hi Folks >>> >>> So about to build a new personal GPU enabled cluster and am looking for >>> peoples thoughts on distribution and management tools. >>> >>> Hardware that I have available for the build >>> - HP Proliant DL380/360 - mix of G5/G6 >>> - HP Proliant SL6500 with 8 GPU >>> - HP Proliant DL580 - G7 + 2x K20x GPU >>> -3x Nvidia Tesla 1070 (4 GPU per unit) >>> >>> Appreciate people insights/thoughts >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Richard >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > >
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