Date:    Sun, 12 Nov 2000 20:11:52 -0500
From:    Robert Anderson <rea@q.sr.unh.edu>
Subject: SLUG Meeting Monday 11/13 in Durham (Morse Hall 301) at 7pm


I never seem to get these things out early (even with reminders from
Suzanne).

     Topic: Using SystemImager & MOSIX to configure a simple Compute Cluster

      When: Monday 11/13 at 7pm

     Where: Morse Hall room 301, directions http://www.sr.unh.edu/~rea/morse/

Presenters: Thomas J. Baker & Robert Anderson

   Summary: As PC hardware has become relatively fast, and
            rackmountable systems are nearing commodity pricing, Linux
            computer clusters are a viable alternative to large
            multi-CPU servers.  At the Research Computing Center
            located at UNH we have completed our second Linux CPU farm
            cluster, with a third waiting for power to be installed.
            The cluster we will be talking about and showing in action
            is a 9 node, dual processor rackmounted cluster, served by
            a similar box with an aditional NIC card and SCSI RAID
            controller.  Users log onto the server and run jobs just
            like any other system.  The MOSIX software migrates those
            jobs over the entire cluster evenly.  We have taken
            advantage of systemimager to configure a single client
            node and automatically install and configure all the other
            nodes in the cluster from the server.

Outline of the Talk:

    1. A description of the UNH RCC environment we work in
    2. The hardware choices we had.
    3. Lessons from the first CPU Farm on campus.
    4. The Software choices we had.
    5. Why we decided to go with MOSIX
    6. Why we decided to use systemimager
    7. Demonstration of the final system.
    8. Q & A

How to get the software or more information:

            SystemImager
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemimager/

    MOSIX
    http://www.mosix.org/



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 Robert E. Anderson     email: rea@sr.unh.edu
 Systems Programmer    phone: (603) 862-3489
 UNH Research Computing Center    fax: (603) 862-1761
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