[Beowulf] [EXTERNAL] Re: Build Recommendations - Private Cluster

[Douglas Eadline]

> And the OS-Link that connected the CPUs in Transputer land lives on as
> SpaceWire, which is a fairly popular high speed serial interconnect for
> spacecraft systems from 2 to 400 Mbps. (there is a faster version called
> SpaceFibre for both copper and optical that does multi Gbps).

Never new that! Thanks for that bit of trivia.

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Doug


>
> On 8/23/19, 7:45 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Douglas Eadline"
> <beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org on behalf of deadline at eadline.org> 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 :-/
>
>     I'm jealous. I recall recycling about 16 Transputers years ago
>     because they were on an ISA interface card (systems I did not
>     have anymore) Transputers were fun.
>
>     And, I'm curious how many people have 42 inch racks at home.
>     Mine is in a purpose built closet in my office. My neighbor
>     is convinced I secretly work for the government. I also
>     have all kinds of hardware and a big 3D printer in my office,
>     which he says further confirms his assertion. My reply
>     "I'm just a computer geek."
>
>     --
>     Doug
>
>     >
>     > 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 <mailto: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
>     >> <mailto: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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