[Beowulf] Have machine, will compute: ESXi or bare metal?

[Jonathan Aquilina]

Clouds aren’t a bad option, usually internal traffic on private ip's isn’t billable network traffic given it stays internal to the cloud network



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From: Beowulf <beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org> On Behalf Of Benson Muite
Sent: Monday, 10 February 2020 09:14
To: Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf <beowulf at beowulf.org>
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Have machine, will compute: ESXi or bare metal?



On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, at 9:46 AM, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On 9/2/20 10:36 pm, Benson Muite wrote:
> 
> > Take a look at the bootable cluster CD here:
> > http://www.littlefe.net/
> 
>  From what I can see BCCD hasn't been updated for just over 5 years, 
> and the last email on their developer list was Feb 2018, so it's 
> likely a little out of date now.
> 
> http://bccd.net/downloads
> 
> http://bccd.net/pipermail/bccd-developers/
> 
> On the other hand their TRAC does list some ticket updates a few 
> months ago, so perhaps there are things going on but Skylar needs more hands?
> 
> https://cluster.earlham.edu/trac/bccd-ng/report/1?sort=created&asc=0&p
> age=1

There are instructions for setup on virtualbox in a Google doc at http://tinyurl.com/pe4cxn8 Another option might be to use a commercial cloud, Glenn Lockwood has an old guide:
https://glennklockwood.blogspot.com/2013/04/quick-mpi-cluster-setup-on-amazon-ec2.html


> 
> All the best,
> Chris
> -- 
>   Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Berkeley, CA, USA 
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