Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:07:07 -0400 From: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@gmail.com> To: Brian Kim <briansan24@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Setting up a UNIX cluster Message-ID: <CAHwLALPx6=z-64Zuihc6P=RcEce3_0a3OUXHEisr9baHaNRaDw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BWSJLeMbN_Nj1Hdo%2BCdbppnwPcAi_a86G85djYoVrqQU3DxLg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BWSJLeMbN_Nj1Hdo%2BCdbppnwPcAi_a86G85djYoVrqQU3DxLg@mail.gmail.com>
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(I was involved in the FreeBSD port of Grid Engine, which is used by the "Fellowship" cluster documented in the paper.) The paper documents the experience in setting up a FreeBSD cluster for High-Performance Computing & High-Throughput Computing. The cluster runs parallel jobs that use MPI. I believe for your use-case, your students are not developing HPC jobs. So you don't really need to set up all the software like Grid Engine, MPI, PXE boot, Ganglia that's mentioned in that paper. Rayson ================================================== Open Grid Scheduler - The Official Open Source Grid Engine http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/GridEngine/GridEngineCloud.html On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Brian Kim <briansan24@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear friends, > > I am currently a teaching assistant for a freshman programming course at > Villanova University. Gloriously enough, we are teaching the C language. > The majority of the students have not had any previous experience in > programming so the extent of their computing knowledge is limited to the > grotesque Windows operating system that they have grown up with. Therefore, > before any discussion of programming begins, I want the students to be > familiarized with the UNIX environment so that they can gcc all their code > and not have to be chained down to IDE's. > In order to accomplish this, I have amassed a number of old Dell computers > that the department has long abandoned and I wish to set up a computer > cluster running FreeBSD. I personally do not have any experience in setting > up clusters and was hoping to request any instructional advice in this > regard. > I have come across this paper ( > http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/fbsdcluster.pdf) that > describes the process of setting up a BSD cluster with 300 nodes but I > found the language to be somewhat dense. There is also the fact that I do > not have any specialized hardware other than a bunch of old computers. > Assuming that I have a network switch, could anyone help me out with a > starting point? > > Thanks! > -- > Best Wishes, > Brian Kim > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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