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Cluster Tweaks™

Note: The Cluster Agenda is changing to Cluster Tweaks

Taking clusters to the next level

Tweak (v): to adjust or modify slightly, so as to improve performance, efficiency, etc.; fine-tune

Computational Clusters have grown from a back room curiosity to a driving force in the HPC community. The roll your own nature of cluster computing has also created a wide community of users, vendors, and applications. Cluster Tweaks is an effort to help track ideas, notes, projects, benchmarks, products, and anything else that helps facilitate HPC cluster computing. A more formal presentation of HPC cluster topics can be found at Cluster Monkey.

Cluster Tweaks is a Wiki and allows registered users the ability to make changes to the site. (Some of the main pages are locked, however). We require a valid email address to limit article spamming.

Project Scope

The word cluster has many meanings. Cluster Tweaks is clearly focused on computational or High Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters. Cluster Tweaks is a place where tricks, tips, how-to's, benchmarks, notes, experiences etc can be recorded and shared with the community.

There are two main components:

• The Cluster Topics - a compendium of current benchmarks, products, technologies, methods, best practices, etc. that will help those interested in clustering. Feel free to add you experiences!
• Cluster Challenges - a collection of user identified challenges that need special focus from the community. If you have an interest in addressing these issues, please feel free to contribute your opinion.

How You Can Contribute To Cluster Tweaks

Contributors must register (the registration process requires confirmation by wiki admins). Our Privacy Policy is very clear and we will not use names or email for any purpose other than for Cluster Tweaks. For editing tips (it is really quite easy) you can check this page . We also have an Attribution Page where you can add your name as a contributor (and become famous).

Questions

If you have specific questions about clusters please visit our Cluster Questions section and enter your question.

If you have questions about this site, please contact Douglas Eadline or Jeff Layton with any questions.

History

ClusterWorld magazine was the initial sponsor of a site called The Cluster Agenda. When ClusterWorld Magazine ceased publication the Agenda effort was stopped. Douglas Eadline, editor of ClusterWorld magazine, was the principle organizer of the Agenda effort and has decided with the help of Jeff Layton to preserve some of the content from the Agenda and morph the site into Cluster Tweaks. The original Agenda Working Committee was Jeff Layton, Glen Otero, Dan Stanzione, and Douglas Eadline.