[Beowulf] HPC for community college?

[John Hearns]

Thinking about the applications to be run at a community college, the
concept of a local weather forecast has been running around in my head
lately.
The concept would be to install and run WRF, perhaps overnight, and produce
a weather forecast in the morning.
I suppose this hinges on WRF having a sufficiently small scale for local
forecasting and on being able to download
input data every day.

Your thoughts please?






On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 at 03:43, Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org> wrote:

>
> That is the idea behind the Limulus systems -- a personal (or group) small
> turn-key cluster that can deliver local HPC performance.
> Users can learn HPC software, administration, and run production
> codes on performance hardware.
>
> I have been calling these "No Data Center Needed"
> computing systems (or as is now the trend "Edge" computing).
> These systems have a different power/noise/heat envelope
> than a small pile of data center servers (i.e. you can use
> them next to your desk, in a lab or classroom, at home etc.)
>
> Performance is optimized to fit in an ambient power/noise/heat
> envelope. Basement Supercomputing recently started shipping
> updated systems with uATX blades and 65W Ryzen processors
> (with ECC), more details are on the data sheet (web page not
> updated to new systems just yet)
>
>
> https://www.basement-supercomputing.com/download/limulus-data-sheets/Limulus_ALL.pdf
>
> Full disclosure, I work with Basement Supercomputing.
>
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> >
> > Is there a role for a modest HPC cluster at the community college?
> >
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