Archive for December, 2009

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Cluster user training

On the same trip to India, I found myself in the position of delivering a training session to a room with incredibly varied backgrounds and skill levels. Some folks had never edited a file on the Unix command line before. Others just wanted to know where MPICH was installed. This set of [...]

21Dec2009 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Inquiry Cluster Admin Slides

I recently took a trip to Kolkata, India to train users and administrators of an Apple / Inquiry compute cluster there. The slides I developed for that trip may be of general interest, and so I’m sharing them here. The intent of these slides is to provide an overview of the administrative tools [...]

21Dec2009 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Setting up LOM on an Apple XServe from the command line

Apple provides a GUI for setting up the IP address and authentication information on the LOM. The problem, for me, with using a GUI for something like this is that it’s nearly impossible to script and automate. When I’m setting up a cluster of even a dozen nodes, going through a remote desktop to a GUI becomes intolerable in a hurry. This post shares my recipe for getting the LOM ports on the network and accessible, using only the command line.

3Dec2009 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Great talk on hadoop, bioinformatics and the cloud

Just passing along the URL to a pretty informative video showing Deepak Singh’s talk at a recent NYC area Hadoop World conference. The presentation contains quite a bit of bioinformatics/IT background that some readers here may already know but the Hadoop and large-scale dataset processing content is really quite interesting. If you work at the [...]

2Dec2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued
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Updated WikiLIMS Presentation

Download the 11-14-2009 version of the WikiLIMS Overview presentation by clicking on the graphic below:

1Dec2009 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Harvard FAS talk on high speed interconnects for commodity HPC systems

1Dec2009 | chrisdag | 0 comments | Continued