The
Clustering Page
Growing up,
I loved tinkering
with computer hardware (in fact I had quite a collection of old junk)
and dreamed of one day having enough of the right resources to put
together my own Beowulf-style Linux Cluster. During my
freshman
year of college (2005-2006), I had the chance to work with a few other
students on helping a professor with an embarrisingly parallel Beowulf
(it used the campus network for a backbone) for pulsar data processing.
In the 2006-2007 school year, Haverford's new physics
professor,
Peter Love, purchased a blade server to use as a HPC Linux Cluster and
I simultaneously inherited several of the better computers from the old
cluster. I know help maintain the Haverford Cluster, as well
as a
small personal cluster in my dorm room (house in summer).
What
follows below are the guides that we put together during the
installation of the cluster. If you'd like more information
or
want to make suggestions/corrections please e-mail me:
aohara[at]haverford[dot]edu (replace[at] and [dot] with appropriate
symbols).