For various reasons, I’ve been doing a little bit of career introspection lately. One of the interesting realizations to come out of this is that, despite in practice doing mostly software work, I’ve been happiest when my work involved a strong awareness of the hardware I was running on.
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There are 3 posts tagged HPC (this is page 1 of 1).
Sketching out HPC clusters at different scales
High-performance computing (HPC) clusters come in a variety of shapes and sizes, depending on the scale of the problems you’re working on, the number of different people using the cluster, and what kinds of resources they need to use.
However, it’s often not clear what kinds of differences separate the kind of cluster you might build for your small research team:
From the kind of cluster that might serve a large laboratory with many different researchers:
There are lots of differences between a supercomputer and my toy Raspberry Pi cluster, but also a lot in common. From a management perspective, a big part of the difference is how many different specialized node types you might find in the larger system.
Continue readinghandy utilities for every hpc cluster
I’ve built a lot of HPC clusters, and they’ve often looked very different from each other depending on the particular hardware and target applications. But I almost always find myself installing a few common tools on them, to make their management easier, so I thought I’d share the list.
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