[Beowulf]Infrastruture planning for small HPC 40/100 gigabyet eyhernet or Infiniband?

[Gerry Creager]

My next home will have multiple fiber pairs to high-use rooms, plus 
convenience wireless.  I don't intend to pull copper through the walls.

I plan to put switches in rooms that need multi-drop and have at least 
one pair of fiber for high-speed access for a server, NAS, or cluster 
leading back to the wiring closet and patch panel.

With a glass infrastructure you can support a lot of technologies.

gerry

MDG wrote:
> I am, wirin my home for a high-speed intranet, to internet fateway.  I 
> had ;planned 10/100/1000 and Catb6 cables, but with the merger ofr 
> entertainment, my 50,000 book digitial ,ibrary (anffrowing), as well as 
> statistcal modeling of econometrics and comnpamies including hedging 
> (Monte Carlo Simulations) will als be doing video and audio editinmg and 
> some web site hosing.
> 
>  
> 
> wuith 40/1000 ethernet being talked about as well as InfinioBand should 
> i just wire forone of those insted as senseless to cut acallopen twice.
> 
> The storgage area for the centralized computers and data storage, nodes 
> will als have some, is already wired, cooling vents cut and installed to 
> dump excess het into the building, it is a condo, exhaust stsrem as 
> wellas the room can be closde and kept air=conditioned with the heat 
> dumbs turned off.
> 
>  
> 
> My question is the wiring with the wotk i do, my2 terabytes is full 
> bringing 3 more on line, and exopct much more, it only makes sense to 
> look at the backbone to see if it will be abottle neck.
> 
>  
> 
> What are your feelings. 10/00/100, 40 gigabyte ethernet,or 100 gigabyte 
> eithernet or InfiniBand?  I can run the CAR 6 and just change switches 
> and routers later as needed but is far cheaoer to put it the wire growth 
> path now.  What do you recommend.  we will be runnng anywhere from 6 at 
> the start to 40 cores, te database will be a dedicated node, maybe if 
> overloaded a 2nd database or nas WILL BE ADDED.  i USE scsi SYSTEM 
> REFERRABLY AS TRAINED THAT WAY BUT MAY ALSO LOOK AT rAID AT LEAST rAID 5 
> sata SYATES, WITH FAST DUAL or a QUAD iore, or multile Dual or Quad 
> Cores in the groth path.
> 
>  
> 
> whawould you sujest as homes will soon neeed a central data management 
> vault where even game consoles feed the system instead of multiole 
> cmputers everywhere.
> 
>  
> 
> Later we will be doing the smae to a TESDA accreduted Private Philippone 
> Technical Collegee with approximaeyly 150 nodes, and muliple servers and 
> NAS systems, so plannong goes for both. and my home HPU may be the daily 
> offsite, out of the cointry even,daily back up, I canm get guranteed 
> bandwidgth so tey could actually use server here but that pushes it with 
> internationak work in real time as the Philippines is far ferom haHawaii 
> in rebilility.  And the Philippine Static Modem is tooslowfor that many 
> to access in real time.  Thank y
> 
>  
> 
> Mike
> --- On *Wed, 7/23/08, Gerry Creager /<gerry.creager at tamu.edu>/* wrote:
> 
>     From: Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>
>     Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Drive screw fixed with LocTite
>     To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com>
>     Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org, "David Mathog" <mathog at caltech.edu>
>     Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 5:12 PM
> 
>     Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>     > "David Mathog" <mathog at caltech.edu> writes:
>     >> A vendor who shall remain nameless graced us with a hot swappable
>     drive
>     >> caddy in which one of the three mounting screws used to fasten the
>     drive
>     >> to the caddy had been treated with blue LocTite.  This wasn't
>     obvious
>     >> from external inspection, but the telltale blue glop was on the
>     threads
>     >> when the screw finally let go and came out.  It was beginning to look
>     >> like power tools were going to be needed to get it out, and the screw
>     >> head was pretty badly torn up after removal.
>     > 
>     > I believe a touch from a soldering iron will usually loosen LocTite,
>     > but that might also damage a drive, so be careful.
> 
>     Acetone or mineral spirits will also take care of locktite. Based on 
>     some rather harsh experience showed that the piddly little heat 
>     generated by a soldering iron won't really cause much damage.
> 
>     >> This is the first time I have encountered a drive screw on a removable
>     >> drive which was, well, unremovable.  Is this a trend or are we just
>     >> dealing with a sadistic assembler?
>     > 
>     > I've never seen it used with a drive, it is certainly not normal.
>     > 
>     > Perry
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