Cluster by Night

If you are a student looking for a cool individual study project or are just interested in a project for its own sake, you might consider updating the existing resource, Cluster by Night. Cluster by Night (CnB) is a live CD approach to setting up an HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster for MPI work. (MPI is a programming library that allows you to write programs for computing clusters.) We’ve used CnB for the last several years in our operating systems class. What distinguishes CbN from other approaches (for example, the popular PelicanHPC) is that it can work with an existing network. With other approaches the master node on the cluster hands out IP addresses; with CbN the cluster nodes receive their IP addresses from the existing DHCP server. I think Cluster by Night is an awesome resource.

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