[Beowulf] HPC for community college?

[Benson Muite]

Enabling local manufacturing using CAD and additive manufacturing may be helpful. 

Machine learning applications such as voice recognition, image recognition and recommendation systems might also be interesting. For example one could improve library catalog search.



On Sat, Feb 22, 2020, at 10:54 AM, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:
> 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.
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> Your thoughts please?
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> On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 at 03:43, Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.)
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>> 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)
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>> https://www.basement-supercomputing.com/download/limulus-data-sheets/Limulus_ALL.pdf
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>> Full disclosure, I work with Basement Supercomputing.
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>> Doug
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>> > Is there a role for a modest HPC cluster at the community college?
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