Re: [Beowulf] Have machine, will compute: ESXi or bare metal?

2020-02-09 Thread Chris Samuel
On 9/2/20 10:36 pm, Benson Muite wrote: Take a look at the bootable cluster CD here: http://www.littlefe.net/ From what I can see BCCD hasn't been updated for just over 5 years, and the last email on their developer list was Feb 2018, so it's likely a little out of date now. http://bccd.ne

Re: [Beowulf] Have machine, will compute: ESXi or bare metal?

2020-02-09 Thread Benson Muite
Take a look at the bootable cluster CD here: http://www.littlefe.net/ On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, at 1:54 AM, Mark Kosmowski wrote: > I purchased a Cisco UCS C460 M2 (4 @ 10 core Xeons, 128 GB total RAM) for > $115 in my local area. If I used ESXi (free license), I am limited to 8 vcpu > per VM. Coul

Re: [Beowulf] Have machine, will compute: ESXi or bare metal?

2020-02-09 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Hi Guys just piggy backing on this thread I am considering upgrading my pc to 64gb of ram and setting it up as a win 10 based hyper-v host. Would you say this is a good way to learn how to put a cluster together with out the need to invest in a small number of servers? My pc is a ryzen 5 3600 6

Re: [Beowulf] Have machine, will compute: ESXi or bare metal?

2020-02-09 Thread Renfro, Michael
No reason you can’t, especially if you’re not interested in benchmark runs (there’s a chance that if you ran a lot of heavily-loaded VMs, there could be CPU contention on the host). Any cluster development work I’ve done lately has used VMware VMs exclusively. On Feb 9, 2020, at 7:10 PM, Mark K

[Beowulf] Have machine, will compute: ESXi or bare metal?

2020-02-09 Thread Mark Kosmowski
I purchased a Cisco UCS C460 M2 (4 @ 10 core Xeons, 128 GB total RAM) for $115 in my local area. If I used ESXi (free license), I am limited to 8 vcpu per VM. Could I make a virtual Beowulf cluster out of some of these VMs? I'm thinking this way I can learn cluster admin without paying the powe