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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications High Performance Computing Building Linux cluster for mechanical engineering software Post 302918828 by biro on Thursday 25th of September 2014 05:24:53 PM
Old 09-25-2014
Building Linux cluster for mechanical engineering software

Hello everybody,

I'm new here in the forum and first i will greet everybody.

Also I'm new with the issue of HPC, but I have to inform my urgently.


My issue:
I'm a mechanical engineer, specialised on simulation like fluid dynamics (CFD) and FEM. Especially I'm programming software for this case.

Everyone who knows CFD, knows already which resources such a simulation needs. In the past I worked on a workstation (Dual-Core Xeon E5), but now I have to build a cluster, especially which can manage the jobs in different queues.

My requirements:
- It should be a linux cluster
- I want to build a cluster with some (for the beginning two) dual-core xeon servers, more machines will follow soon.
- For the special software tools (Ansys CFD) a clone of rhel 6.3 (scientific linux 6.5 is already working) is necesarry.
- For the user GUIs (meshing for CFD or monitor the simulation) a X-Server, which is available by rdp or/and NX, is needed
- For the software I build on my own, I will take experience with GPGPU- and MPI - Programming (not so important, this issue can wait)

I think that are the important values for the Cluster. For that issue I had searched a long time, but I don't found many information about hpc-cluster building and I don't found good literature therefor.

Because of that my questions:
- Are there a good HowTo to build those cluster ?
- Which (special) hardware do I need ?
- Which software do I need for all that (user administration, parallel filesystem, batch system to manage the jobs, cluster-monitoring, MPI, ...) ?
- Can I use only open-source software ?
- Should I use a VM with another linux as base?

I know these are many questions, but I don't find another way and the time is running out.

I'm very happy about every helpful answer. I want to thank you in advance!!

Greets

Last edited by biro; 09-25-2014 at 06:32 PM..
 

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