[Beowulf] how do I get started?

[J Pill]

Hello.

i'm working with beowulf around 2 years, but i think that mi knowledge is
not enough, so, is posible make a web portal about an beowulf academy? or
that exist?


Thanks a lot.


>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Eric Thibodeau <kyron at neuralbs.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  Amir:
>> See below,
>>
>> Mark Kosmowski wrote:
>>
>> I have a small cluster too (ok, had, I'm condensing to one big RAM
>> workstation at the moment).  Mine was a 3 node dual Opteron setup.
>>
>> The first trick is to get each node to be able to ssh to every other
>> node without getting a password prompt.  It doesn't matter for the
>> calculation whether this is done by passwordless ssh or using some
>> keychain type applet.  All that matters for the calculation is that
>> each node be able to ssh without prompt to each other node.  This
>> means n! checks.  For my 3 node baby cluster I did this manually,
>> since 3! is 6.  More nodes - might want to make a script or something.
>>
>>
>>  Here is an example with one-lined "script" for the ssh password less
>> logon:
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.neuralbs.com/index.php/Howto_Build_a_Basic_Gentoo_Beowulf_Cluster#Passwordless_Logon_to_the_Nodes_and_Node_List_Creation
>>
>> Next, you need to make your application parellel.  This typically
>> involves compiling with some sort of MPI.  I use OpenMPI.  MPICH is
>> another option.  This is going to be part of the learning curve.  When
>> you can <mpirun hostname> and get an output for each CPU (each core?)
>> you're ready to start wrestling with an MPI compile of your
>> application code.
>>
>> If you're not used to compiling your own code, there may be a bit of a
>> learning curve for this also.
>>
>>
>>  Well... once I "finish" my Google Summer of Code project, people like you
>> will have a fun playground with graphical examples (as well as serious
>> people for serious HPC...but they won't admit to that and keep using RH as
>> an OS :P)
>>
>> http://soc.gentooexperimental.org/projects/show/gentoo-cluster-seed
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Mark E. Kosmowski
>>
>>
>>  Enjoy,
>>
>> Eric Thibodeau
>>
>>  Amir,
>> Did you try any of the documents referenced at wiki,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_%28computing%29#See_also?
>>
>> There is a free downloadable book at Professor Brown's website, start athttp://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Beowulf/beowulf.php <http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb/Beowulf/beowulf.php>
>>
>> And I believe yes, you can use SSH to replace RSH pretty much anywhere. I
>> haven't done that myself but I'm only a hobbyist.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On 7/16/08, Amir Saad <eng_amirsaad at yahoo.com> <eng_amirsaad at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  I'm trying to build a small Beowulf cluster using 5 Ubuntu machines. I did
>> a lot of search and yet couldn't find a getting started guide. Any ideas?
>>
>> All the articles I found are using RSH, is it possible to replace this with
>> password-less SSH? Would it be possible to use Ubuntu? Which packages should
>> I install to build the cluster?
>>
>> Please advice.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Amir
>>
>>
>>
>>
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