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Don't have time to read the Beowulf List Archives. No problem, our resident List Lurker (and contributor) Jeff Layton has you covered. Our Best of the Beowulf List column provides a convenient readers Digest Version with important links!
KVM to nodes and Fedora Cluster Project?
- Published on Friday, 25 August 2006 13:44
- Written by Jeff Layton
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The Beowulf mailing list provides detailed discussions about issues concerning Linux HPC clusters. In this article I review some postings to the Beowulf list on KVM's (keyboard/video/mouse) to the compute nodes as well as a Fedora cluster project.
Benchmarking and Windows HPC Edition - Redux
- Published on Wednesday, 04 October 2006 21:00
- Written by Jeff Layton
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Issues, but no real answers
The Beowulf mailing list provides detailed discussions about issues concerning Linux HPC clusters. In this article I review some postings to the Beowulf list on performance measurements and Microsoft's foray into the HPC market (nice historical perspective here) which resulted in a good and timely discussion about Linux distributions for the HPC world. While these discussions were from 2004 and a bit on the older side (aren't we all?), they do provide some good insights into the these continuing discussions
Power Usage and GigE Switches - Let's Talk
- Published on Wednesday, 28 June 2006 05:22
- Written by Jeff Layton
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Power Usage and GigE switches - Sounds like Lunch to me!
The Beowulf mailing list provides detailed discussions about issues concerning Linux HPC clusters. In this article I review some postings to the Beowulf list on power usage (always a good topic) from two discussion threads on the beowulf list. I'll also review some discussions about 24-port GigE switches from 2004. Plus a bonus update to the age old question Where can I get a cheap GigE switch?
User Authentication and Disk Monitoring Discussions
- Published on Wednesday, 28 June 2006 03:23
- Written by Jeff Layton
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The Beowulf mailing list provides detailed discussions about issues concerning Linux HPC clusters. In this article I review some postings to the Beowulf list on user authentication within clusters and on some postings to the smartmontools mailing list discussing the monitoring of disks.
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RAID and File Systems Discussions
- Published on Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:00
- Written by Jeff Layton
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Some aid for those that use RAID
The Beowulf mailing list provides detailed discussions about issues concerning Linux HPC clusters. In this article we turn our attention to other mailinsg lists that also can provide useful information. In this article I review some postings in the Rocks-Discuss and LVM mailing lists where we report on RAID and file system preferences.
More Articles...
- Grids, disks, directories, and Weird OS tricks (wheee!)
- Cluster Cooling, Noise and Benchmark Timing
- SATA drives, benchmarks, booting from USB
- Grids, Ganglia Metrics, IO, and UML
- Cluster Noise and Clock Resolution
- Gigabit Switches, Channel Bonding, Opterons, and Large Memory Allocations
- Storage, Benchmarks, and USB Booting
- Wake-on-Lan, Processor Benchmarking, and File System Benchmarks
