[lug] psuedo OT: advice on learning clusters

[Hugh Brown]

On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 13:29, Ed Hill wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 12:25, Hugh Brown wrote:
> > My company bought a 128 processor linux cluster a while back which has
> > idled due to resource constraints.  I'm a fair linux admin w/ not much
> > programming background or cluster experience.  I'm curious to know if
> > there are some standard starting points (e.g. definitive guide for
> > parallel computing) for developing proficiency in both administrating a
> > cluster and using it as well.
> > 
> > I guess I'm asking what the right/preferred manuals are so I can RTM.
> 
> 
> Hi Hugh,
> 
> It really depends on what you're going to do with the cluster.  We use
> our clusters for computational work and the preferred tools are OpenPBS,
> MPI, etc.  We're currently getting into "grid" technologies such as
> globus and condor-g for our "next-gen" cluster system which is under
> construction:
> 
>   http://mitgcm.org/projects/ACES/about.htm
>   http://mitgcm.org/
> 
> But if you intend to use your cluster for other things (eg. databases)
> then the tools mentioned above are more-or-less irrelevant.
> 
> So what are your applications?
> 
> Ed

I'm interested in a computational approach and developing general
competency in a scientific cluster environment.

Hugh