[Beowulf] Build Recommendations - Private Cluster

[John Hearns]

A Transputer cluster? Squeeee! I know John Taylor (formerly Meiko/Quadrics)
very well.
Perhaps send me a picture off-list please?


On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 06:55, Richard Edwards <ejb at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Hi John
>
> No doom and gloom.
>
> It's in a purpose built workshop/computer room that I have; 42U Rack,
> cross draft cooling which is sufficient and 32AMP Power into the PDU’s. The
> equipment is housed in the 42U Rack along with a variety of other machines
> such as Sun Enterprise 4000 and a 30 CPU Transputer Cluster. None of it
> runs 24/7 and not all of it is on at the same time, mainly because of the
> cost of power :-/
>
> Yeah the Tesla 1070’s scream like a banshee…..
>
> I am planning on running it as power on, on demand setup, which I already
> do through some HP iLo and APC PDU Scripts that I have for these machines.
> Until recently I have been running some of them as a vSphere cluster and
> others as standalone CUDA machines.
>
> So that’s one vote for OpenHPC.
>
> Cheers
>
> Richard
>
> On 21 Aug 2019, at 3:45 pm, John Hearns via Beowulf <beowulf at beowulf.org>
> wrote:
>
> 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 outdated software stack as 1070 cards are not supported by the recent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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