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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">Ghadiyali Mohammed</div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">I would suggest looking at the new OpenHPC Project perhaps:</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">http://www.openhpc.community/</div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">Doug Eadline has some very good guides on his site also.</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">http://www.clustermonkey.net/<a href="http://www.clustermonkey.net/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.clustermonkey.net/</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">Please let us know how your cluster build proceeds.</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">May I ask which hardware you have to build with?</div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">What network cards do you have?</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">th efirst step will be to set the BIOS on each comoute node to enable PXE booting,</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">and to have PXE (network) booting first inthe boot order.</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">Try to make all BIOS settings the same on the compute nodes.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">Then record the MAC Address of the card if you can - you can se it on screen, or you can sometimes see it on a small barcode lable on the card.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">Yes - there are other techniques to get the MAC Address.</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">You can plug the card into a switch - if you know the switch port for a given card you can then get the MAC address.</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">Or you can power on each compute node and the cluster head node will get DHCP requests - you can look for these.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">But to start with if you have a few compute nodes note down some MAC addresses.</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sorry folks if this is slightly bad advice .</div>
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