Linux: Landing Page

Linux General

• Solarflare Install
• 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
• 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
• Linux: awk Tips and Tricks
• Linux: Runlevel editor
• Linux; Suse boot up issues
• Linux: Kernel Arguments

Debugging

• Linux: Network Debugging

Server Managment

• BIOS Recovery
• ipmitool: Basic installation and usage
• NMView
• SMM: Supermicro Server Management
• MFU: Mass Firmware Update
• IPMICFG: Using the Supermicro utility ipmicfg (to update the FRU)
• SMCBIU: Supermicro BIOS Utility

Virtualisation

• KVM: Installation and operation
• KVM: Tips and Tricks
• VMWare: vCentre Installation and Setup
• VMWare: Setting up PXE deployment for ESXi 5

Hadoop

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

CEPH

• CEPH: Ceph on the Blades

LifeScope

• LifeScope: Installation on Compute Nodes

Accelerators (GPU/ CUDA / MIC / Phi)

• CUDA: GPU Settings
• CUDA: Installing CUDA 5
• CUDA: Installing CUDA and Building the SDK
• GPU: Nvidia-smi
• GPU: Nvidia-healthmon
• GPU: NVML
• GPU: Hardware Locality
• Benchmarking: HPL on a GPU using CUDA
• Benchmarking: Virtual curreny mining cudaminer rpcminer on K20
• MIC: Installing and Setting up MIC Platform Software Stack
• MIC: Developers Quick Start Guide

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
• MPI: Building OpenMPI 1.6.4

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

• Calxeda: Boston Install Scripts

Switches

• Gnodal: Setting up the gnodal switch

Raid Controllers

• RAID: Using MegaCli, the LSI command line interface

Infiniband

• Intel/Qlogic IB

Benchmarking

• Benchmarking: Apache Benchmark (ab)
• Benchmarking: CERN System Configuration
• Benchmarking: FIO
• Benchmarking: bonnie++
• 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
• Benchmarking: iPerf
• Benchmarking: OMB MPI (OSU)
• Benchmarking: AMBER 12
• Benchmarking: Gromacs-4.6
• Benchmarking: CARMA Dev Kit - Linpack
• Benchmarking: CARMA Dev Kit - CUDA Accelerated Linpack
• Benchmarking: CUDA Accelerated Linpack for Linux64
• Benchmarking: Quantum Espresso 5.0.2 GPU
• Benchmarking: Quantum Espresso 5.0.2 CPU only
• Benchmarking: IOzone - ARM

HPC Engineering TODO

• HPC engineering TODO List

ACL Test Pages

• External:Feedback