[Beowulf] HPC for community college?

[Renfro, Michael]

Late to the party, but I’m working with some XSEDE folks on adapting their XSEDE Compatible Basic Cluster (XCBC) based on Warewulf and OpenHPC to environments that don’t have 24/7 compute hardware.

The goal being to have an OHPC installation running on regular Windows lab computers when possible. Dual-booting the PCs between a regular Windows install and a diskless OHPC setup. And almost entirely non-invasive to a Windows-centric IT environment.

Waiting on approval on some DHCP server changes before we do a test in a real lab of ours.

On Feb 22, 2020, at 1:54 AM, John Hearns via Beowulf <beowulf at beowulf.org> 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.

Your thoughts please?






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

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