 |  KUSU 103: Beowulf Cluster Best Practices
In this section, I share more about selecting components of a cluster, what to look out for and some best practices.
Also, very often forgotten is building/buying a cluster is not just about lowest costs, most CPU....
It is about building a BALANCED cluster that will solve your...  |
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October 15th, 2008 04:32 AM by beowulf  | |
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| | Primitive FetchCommand The future of Kusu's retrieval processes
The next generation of Kusu is designed to be layered on top of basic services(generation of autoinstallation templates, generic fetching of files/directories from a URI, etc). This article discusses the FetchCommand, which is to be used throughout Kusu 2.0 to fetch files/directories via http, ftp,... |
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October 1st, 2008 04:05 PM by George Goh | |
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| | Developer Tip: Quick Nodeinstaller Updates
The nodeinstaller code is packaged into updates.img files deployed in /opt/kusu/lib/nodeinstaller on your Kusu master node. These files are generated when building the base kit. To build a base kit can be time consuming.
To shorten the turnaround time from making changes to... |
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September 29th, 2008 09:59 AM by vbseo | |
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| | KUSU 102: Beowulf Cluster Patterns
2.1 Cluster Patterns
After working with so many customers over the last 10 years building Beowulf/HPC clusters... a few architectures keep recurring (please remember.. when I coined this terminology for clusters it was way back in 2004-2005).
I have shared these designs with... |
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July 25th, 2008 01:25 PM by beowulf | |
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| | Node Provisioning Process
This document outlines the process involved in installing a Kusu node.
PXE Boot
Obtain an IP
Each node is configured to boot from its network cards. The DHCP server running on the master node will assign an IP to the nodes as they come up. IPs are only assigned if the addhost... |
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July 11th, 2008 04:28 AM by George Goh | |
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| | KUSU 101: What is Beowulf Cluster Computing? (Table of Contents)
This series of articles will cover the basics of Beowulf Clusters otherwise known also High Performance Computing Clusters (HPCC) or High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC).
Table of Contents:
KUSU 101: What is Beowulf Cluster Computing ?
1.1 History
1.2 Parallel... |
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June 24th, 2008 06:45 AM by beowulf | |
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| | KUSU 101: What is Beowulf Cluster Computing (Section 1.5 - 1.7)
1.5 What can I run on a Beowulf Cluster?
People use Beowulf Clusters to solve computational intensive tasks. If your application is now taking 1 minute to complete a computation and you want to make it complete in 30 seconds – Beowulf Clusters are unlikely to be what you are looking for.... |
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June 24th, 2008 06:29 AM by beowulf | |
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| | KUSU 101: What is Beowulf Cluster Computing (Section 1.3 - 1.4)
1.3 The Beowulf Cluster
The most commonly accepted definition of a Beowulf Cluster is :
Built with commodity-of-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and components
A private compute TCP/IP network (although today the use of proprietary high-speed, high-bandwidths interconnects such as... |
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June 24th, 2008 05:29 AM by beowulf | |
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| | KUSU 101: What is Beowulf Cluster Computing? (Section 1.1 - 1.2)
1.1 History
The first Beowulf Cluster was built in 1994 by NASA HPCC Program Earth and Space Sciences Project at the Goddard Space Flight Center. The team was lead by Dr Thomas Sterling and Donald Becker, and they assembled together a 16-processor system with 66Mhz Intel 486 CPUs... |
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June 24th, 2008 05:24 AM by beowulf | |
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