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In order to accommodate the new cluster, we have reduced the Blue Sky Studios cluster from 3 racks in production to a single rack. That rack contains nothing but 24 gb memory nodes offering just over 1.1 TB of memory across 46 nodes. | In order to accommodate the new cluster, we have reduced the Blue Sky Studios cluster from 3 racks in production to a single rack. That rack contains nothing but 24 gb memory nodes offering just over 1.1 TB of memory across 46 nodes. | ||
- | There are no changes to the Dell cluster (petaltail/ | + | There are no changes to the Dell cluster (petaltail/ |
- | If we like the HP management tools, in the future we may ingest cluster petaltail/ | + | If we like the HP management tools, in the future we may ingest cluster petaltail/ |
As always, suggestions welcome. | As always, suggestions welcome. | ||
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* We continually run out of disk space for our home directories. | * We continually run out of disk space for our home directories. | ||
- | * We wanted more nodes, | + | * We wanted more nodes, |
* All nodes should be on an Infiniband switch. | * All nodes should be on an Infiniband switch. | ||
* A single queue is preferred. | * A single queue is preferred. | ||
- | * Data (NFS) was to be served up via a secondary gigabit ethernet switch, hence not compete with administrative traffic. | + | * Data (NFS) traffic |
* (With the HP solution we will actually route data (NFS) traffic over the infiniband switch using OFED/MPI, a practice called [[http:// | * (With the HP solution we will actually route data (NFS) traffic over the infiniband switch using OFED/MPI, a practice called [[http:// | ||
* Linux (Redhat or CentOS) as operating system. | * Linux (Redhat or CentOS) as operating system. |