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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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clsetup(1CL)						 Sun Cluster Maintenance Commands					      clsetup(1CL)

NAME
clsetup - configure Sun Cluster interactively SYNOPSIS
/usr/cluster/bin/clsetup -V /usr/cluster/bin/clsetup -? /usr/cluster/bin/clsetup [-f logfile] DESCRIPTION
The clsetup command provides the following configuration capabilities, depending on what state the cluster is in when you issue the com- mand. The user must be superuser to run this command. This command has no short form. o When you run the clsetup command at post-installation time, the command performs initial setup tasks, such as configuring quorum devices and resetting the installmode property. If you deselected automatic Quroum Configuration when you created the cluster using either scinstall or the cluster create command, then you must run the clsetup command immediately after the cluster has been installed. Ensure that all nodes have joined the cluster before you run the clsetup command and reset the installmode prop- erty. If you used automatic quorum configuration when you created the cluster, you do not need to run the clsetup command after clus- ter installation. The automatic quorum configuration feature also resets the installmode property of the cluster. You can issue this form of the clsetup command from any node in the cluster. o When you run the clsetup command during normal cluster operation, the scsetup command provides an interactive, menu-driven util- ity to perform cluster configuration tasks. The following are some of the cluster components which this utility administers: o Quorum o Resource groups o Data services o Cluster interconnect o Device groups and volumes o Private hostnames o New nodes o Other cluster properties You can issue this form of the clsetup command from any node in the cluster. o When you run the clsetup command from a node that is in noncluster mode, the clsetup command provides a menu-driven utility for changing and displaying the private IP address range. You must reboot all nodes into noncluster mode before you start this form of the clsetup utility. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -? --help Prints help information for the command. -f logfile --file logfile Specifies the name of a log file to which commands can be logged. If this option is specified, most command sets generated by clsetup can br run and logged, or just logged, depending on user responses. -V --version Prints the version of the command set. No command line processing will be performed and the command will not enter into its interactive menu. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWsczu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Intro(1CL), cldevicegroup(1CL), clnode(1CL), clquorum(1CL), clreslogicalhostname(1CL), clresourcegroup(1CL), clresourcetype(1CL), clressharedaddress(1CL), cluster(1CL), cltelemetryattribute(1CL) Sun Cluster 3.2 5 May 2006 clsetup(1CL)
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