[Beowulf] Build Recommendations - Private Cluster

[John Hearns]

Add up the power consumption for each of those servers. If you plan on
installing this in a domestic house or indeed in a normal office
environment you probably wont have enough amperage in the circuit you
intend to power it from.
Sorry to be all doom and gloom.
Also this setup will make a great deal of noise. If in a domestic setting
put it in the garage.
In an office setting the obvious place is a comms room but be careful about
the ventilation.
Office comms rooms often have a single wall mounted air conditioning unit.
Make SURE to run a temperature shutdown script.
This air con unit WILL fail over a weekend.

Regarding the software stack I would look at OpenHPC. But that's just me.





On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 06:09, Dmitri Chubarov <dmitri.chubarov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> this is a very old hardware and you would have to stay with a very
> outdated software stack as 1070 cards are not supported by the recent
> versions of NVIDIA Drivers and old versions of NVIDIA drivers do not play
> well with modern kernels and modern system libraries.Unless you are doing
> this for digital preservation, consider dropping 1070s out of the equation.
>
> Dmitri
>
>
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 06:46, Richard Edwards <ejb at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks
>>
>> So about to build a new personal GPU enabled cluster and am looking for
>> peoples thoughts on distribution and management tools.
>>
>> Hardware that I have available for the build
>> - HP Proliant DL380/360 - mix of G5/G6
>> - HP Proliant SL6500 with 8 GPU
>> - HP Proliant DL580 - G7 + 2x K20x GPU
>> -3x Nvidia Tesla 1070 (4 GPU per unit)
>>
>> Appreciate people insights/thoughts
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Richard
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