[Beowulf] Advice on 4 CPU node configurations

2011-02-02 Thread madskaddie
Hi all We are designing a new HPC system for our lab. We are shifting ideas around (our budget is of 30K euro). We do CFD and mainly run two types of stuff: - Finite volume, with neighbour (hallo cell) comunication (so, communication with neighbours only) - Direct Numerical Simulation

Re: [Beowulf] first cluster

2010-07-24 Thread madskaddie
I manage a small cluster with a central image for the execution hosts (fully decoupled from the master/ login nodes). To deal with direct access to nodes: - Every user has an "*" on the password field of the /etc/shadow file in the execution hosts images - Access through ssh to the exec hosts is

Re: [Beowulf] Gridengine and bash + Modules

2010-01-18 Thread madskaddie
2010/1/18 Brian Smith : > Ah, the RedHat-isms that we take for granted... hah!  I forgot that the > default ~/.bashrc I push out to everyone sources /etc/bashrc by default. > What distro are you using? > Debian lenny > There's also this bit of goodness from the man page: > > "Bash attempts to det

Re: [Beowulf] Gridengine and bash + Modules

2010-01-18 Thread madskaddie
2010/1/16 Brian Smith : > I'm using this in our environment.  I've simply added the Modules > environment code to /etc/bashrc and /etc/csh.cshrc on all nodes (I use > puppet to manage everything, so this is easy).  This ensures that > Modules is properly integrated with your environment regardless

[Beowulf] Gridengine and bash + Modules

2010-01-16 Thread madskaddie
Greetings, I'm using gridengine (6.2u4, open source ver.) and I would like to use the Modules software. Modules uses a shell function that must be exported (bash: "export -f func_name" in order to set environment variables), but gridengine has a bug related with bash exported functions[1]. Is any

Re: [Beowulf] GPU question

2009-08-31 Thread madskaddie
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > One thing that has yet to be mentioned is what kind of gpu are we talking > about. depending on the problem would tesla gpu's, if you are building the > cluster from scratch, be better for a gpu based cluster as they are meant > for high p

Re: [Beowulf] GPU question

2009-08-30 Thread madskaddie
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:35 AM, amjad ali wrote: > Hello all, specially Gil Brandao > > Actually I want to start CUDA programming for my |C.I have 2 options to do: > 1) Buy a new PC that will have 1 or 2 CPUs and 2 or 4 GPUs. > 2) Add 1 GPUs to each of the Four nodes of my PC-Cluster. > > Which o

Re: [Beowulf] Cluster install and admin approach (newbie question)

2009-08-28 Thread madskaddie
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Hearns, John wrote: > > Gil, I can't answer your questions because I don't know who supplied > your cluster - > there are many cluster management suites. > The cluster is a Debian based beowulf-like cluster (we have supplied our selves). > > You can set up syslo

[Beowulf] Cluster install and admin approach (newbie question)

2009-08-28 Thread madskaddie
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Hearns, John wrote: > Greetings, > > > I relatively new to cluster environments and I was given a small > (7nodes+1head) cluster to admin. So far I only had to maintain what > was already installed so few problems to solve (and to think on). But > new (diferent: am

[Beowulf] Cluster install and admin approach (newbie question)

2009-08-27 Thread madskaddie
Greetings, I relatively new to cluster environments and I was given a small (7nodes+1head) cluster to admin. So far I only had to maintain what was already installed so few problems to solve (and to think on). But new (diferent: amd opteron vs intel xeon) machines came and I have to expand the cl