Linux: Landing Page

Linux General

• Using netcat to install or copy .img or .img.xz files
• Software RAID with mdadm
• Cobbler installation on CentOS/RHEL
• Puppet: Setup and install puppet
• MegaCli: LSI Command Line Tool commands
• Filesystems: Gluster
• Linux: SSH tips and tricks
• Gnuplot: Plotting graphs
• RPM: Using the rpm command (Tips and tricks)
• Linux: Flush the cache
• Parted: Basic operations
• ipmitool: Basic installation and usage
• Bandwidth Shaping: Throttling eth0 upload/download speeds
• Yum: add a local cdrom repository
• Create a filesystem on a file
• Linux: Grant sudo access
• Linux: Setup static routes
• wget: Download files recursively from a location
• Linux: BIOS Raid Metadata
• Linux: VIM Commands
• Linux: Setting up SOL (Serial Over Lan)
• Iptables: Explanations, options & examples
• find: Tips and Tricks

Server Managment

• NMView
• SMM: Supermicro Server Management
• MFU: Mass Firmware Update

Virtualisation

• KVM: Installation and operation
• KVM: Tips and Tricks
• VMWare: vCentre Installation and Setup

Hadoop

• Hadoop: Setup a single host test system
• Hadoop: Setup a cluster test system
• Hadoop: Error: DFS Safe mode is on - Leave safe mode

Accelerators (CUDA / MIC / Phi)

• CUDA: Installing CUDA 5
• CUDA: Installing CUDA and Building the SDK
• Benchmarking: HPL on a GPU using CUDA

ScaleIO

• ScaleIO: Install and configure on Centos 6.2

Intel Cluster Ready

• Intel: ICR Cluster Checker and Certification

MPI

• Linux: Checking the Infiniband Fabric
• MPI: Using OpenMPI
• MPI: Using Platform MPI
• MPI: Using Intel MPI

Calxeda Notes

• Calxeda: Setup ipmitool, cxmanage and update firmware
• Calxeda: Using cxmanage, ipmitool & cxoem functions
• Calxeda: Serial Console during bootup
• Calxeda: PXE Install Ubuntu 1210
• Calxeda: Open-MX (Myrinet Express over Generic Ethernet Hardware)
• Calxeda: OpenMPI 1.6 Install in Ubuntu 2010
• Calxeda: Get node power using ipmitool
• Calxeda: Setup pdsh across nodes
• Calxeda: Setup csync2 to sync configuration files
• Calxeda: SPEC CPU 2006 Benchmarking
• Calxeda: Install Oracle EJRE
• Calxeda: Using VANs on the SoCs

Benchmarking

• Benchmarking: Apache Benchmark (ab)
• Benchmarking: CERN System Configuration
• Benchmarking: FIO
• Benchmarking: Gromacs
• Benchmarking: HEPSPEC
• Benchmarking: IOR
• Benchmarking: Powerbench
• Benchmarking: CPUBurn-in
• Benchmarking: Sysbench (OLTP)
• Benchmarking: LAMMPS
• Benchmarking: CP2K
• Benchmarking: HPL (High Performance Linpack)
• Benchmarking: MPI Message Rates: SQMR
• Benchmarking: SHOC
• Benchmarking: Povray
• Benchmarking: SPEC CPU 2006

HPC Engineering TODO

• HPC engineering TODO List

ACL Test Pages

• External:Feedback