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
• SSH: Set up a reverse tunnel
• 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

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 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

• MPI: Using OpenMPI

Calxeda Notes

• Calxeda: Setup ipmitool, cxmanage and update firmware
• 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

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

HPC Engineering TODO

• HPC engineering TODO List