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Wrdieter: Added CDR link

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Added CDR link

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2005-12-16T16:57:36Z

New page

Books

* [http://www.phy.duke.edu/resources/computing/brahma/Resources/beowulf_book.php Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute Cluster by Robert G. Brown ] - A freely available book on building/designing Beowulf style clusters.

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	* [http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Beowulf/beowulf_book.php Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute Cluster by Robert G. Brown ] - A freely available book on building/designing Beowulf style clusters.		* [http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Beowulf/beowulf_book.php Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute Cluster by Robert G. Brown ] - A freely available book on building/designing Beowulf style clusters.

−	* See the Cluster Monkey [http://www.clustermonkey.net/~~/component/option,com_weblinks/catid,39/Itemid,23~~/ Cluster Books Page ]	+	* See the Cluster Monkey [http://www.clustermonkey.net/Books/ Cluster Books Page ]

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-Books
+'''Books'''
-* [http://www.phy.duke.edu/resources/computing/brahma/Resources/beowulf_book.php   Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute Cluster by Robert G. Brown ] - A freely available book on building/designing Beowulf style clusters.
+* [http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Beowulf/beowulf_book.php  Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute Cluster by Robert G. Brown ] - A freely available book on building/designing Beowulf style clusters.
 Tools
 * [http://aggregate.org/CDR/ The Cluster Design Rules ] - A tool to help design a cluster tuned for an application

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	* [http://www.phy.duke.edu/resources/computing/brahma/Resources/beowulf_book.php Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute Cluster by Robert G. Brown ] - A freely available book on building/designing Beowulf style clusters.		* [http://www.phy.duke.edu/resources/computing/brahma/Resources/beowulf_book.php Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute Cluster by Robert G. Brown ] - A freely available book on building/designing Beowulf style clusters.
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		+	Tools
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		+	* [http://aggregate.org/CDR/ The Cluster Design Rules ] - A tool to help design a cluster tuned for an application

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 '''Do I need disk drives on my nodes?'''
-* This decision also depends on on your needs.  In some cases nodes can be run without
+* This decision also depends on on your needs.  In some cases nodes can be run without hard drives, in others local swap or scratch space is needed.
 '''What type of storage?'''
 * do you need a parallel file system?
 * Will a basic NFS setup be enough? Will it scale to the nodes you need?
-* How do I construct a cluster?
+* How do I construct a diskless cluster?
 There are many other questions that need to be answered, but these should give you a start. The book below (freely available) is also a good place to start.

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 * do you need a parallel file system?
 * Will a basic NFS setup be enough? Will it scale to the nodes you need?
+* How do I construct a cluster?
 There are many other questions that need to be answered, but these should give you a start. The book below (freely available) is also a good place to start.

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 Clusters are all about design. Indeed, clusters are about designing machines
-around problems. When designing a cluster the following questions need to be
+around problems. When designing a cluster the following '''basic''' questions
-may be helpful
+may be helpful. If you need help with answers, try asking on the [http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf Beowulf Mailing List] or submit a question to the [[Cluster Questions]] section.
-Consider your budget?
+'''Consider your budget'''
-* Do you need help with software and support? If so, reserve soem funds for this part of the project.
+* Do you need help with software and support? If so, reserve some funds for this part of the project. While clusters can be easy to set up initially, continued operation can be time consuming.
-* Do you plan on assembling the cluster yourself? If yes, at what level? Starting from motherboards, cases, memory, processros, etc. can be very tiem consumeing. Buy quality parts
+* Do you plan on assembling the cluster yourself? If yes, at what level? Starting from motherboards, cases, memory, processors, etc. can be very time consuming. Buy quality parts.
-How many processors?
+'''How many and what type of processors do I need?'''
-* This depends on your application. How well does you applicaiton scale. Have you tested it on a real cluster? If it is a common application, have other run it on a cluster?
+'''What Type of Interconnect?'''
+*Again, this depends on your application. If you can use Gigabit Ethernet, then  you can probably buy more nodes. If you need a faster interconnect, then you may have to sacrifice nodes for interconnects to stay in your budget. Benchmarking your code(s) is important.
-What Type of Interconnect?
+'''What type of software?'''
-* Again, this depends on your applicaiton. If you can use Gigabit Ethernet, then  you can probabaly by more nodes. If you need a faster interconnect, then you may have to sacrifie nodes for interconnects to stay in your budget.
+'''Do I need disk drives on my nodes?'''

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		+	Clusters are all about design. Indeed, clusters are about designing machines
		+	around problems. When designing a cluster the following questions need to be
		+	may be helpful
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		+	Consider your budget?
		+	* Do you need help with software and support? If so, reserve soem funds for this part of the project.
		+	* Do you plan on assembling the cluster yourself? If yes, at what level? Starting from motherboards, cases, memory, processros, etc. can be very tiem consumeing. Buy quality parts
		+
		+	How many processors?
		+
		+	* This depends on your application. How well does you applicaiton scale. Have you tested it on a real cluster? If it is a common application, have other run it on a cluster?
		+	*
		+
		+	What Type of Interconnect?
		+
		+	* Again, this depends on your applicaiton. If you can use Gigabit Ethernet, then you can probabaly by more nodes. If you need a faster interconnect, then you may have to sacrifie nodes for interconnects to stay in your budget.
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	Books		Books

	* [http://www.phy.duke.edu/resources/computing/brahma/Resources/beowulf_book.php Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute Cluster by Robert G. Brown ] - A freely available book on building/designing Beowulf style clusters.		* [http://www.phy.duke.edu/resources/computing/brahma/Resources/beowulf_book.php Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute Cluster by Robert G. Brown ] - A freely available book on building/designing Beowulf style clusters.