So I am dedicating this sticky to that, i am currently putting together an HPC cluster to run at home for use, including other things, but mainly for some project computation needs here at hypo (please check out the
Strange Numbers thread)
I figured what i wanted to do, i am going to make custom installs of Gentoo on a few machines to start with, i will start a 2 node cluster on machines i have at home, i hope to go to a 4 or 5 node next week, and hopefully to an 8 node in the coming months (actually if i get a decent amount of money from taxes, this may turn to have a large amount of nodes before the summer arrives)
current hardware:
master:
3.4Ghz P4ht 800Mhz fsb
2.5Gb DDR400
node 1:
3.0Ghz P4ht 800MHz fsb
1.5GB ddr400
network: is a dedicated 8 port gigabit switch, intel gigabit cards.
Storage: not decided yet, master node may get a storage facelift, figuring 1-2T should suffice for now this will eliminate the usage of the network to store the data
as i physically get more nodes, i will post them here
first reference:
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- High Performance Computing on Gentoo Linux
now i just need to make it happen software-wise
I decided to go with gentoo only because its a totally stripped down distro that i can build up... i didnt want a live distro, it uses too much ram, usually they are inefficient too, i might eventually make a net-boot version, but for now i just want to get it going, and start writing mpi code for it.
I'll post as i go along, on what happens, how it gets resolved, etc
once i have master, new nodes will be allowed to use distcc to build their packages, so each consecutive node will have more processing power to compile with for boot strapping etc
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