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AMAX GPU Workstation, AKA “cluster in a box”

August 6th, 2010
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Recently a faculty member got a grant to buy a small GPU based computing cluster. He wound up buying a ServMax PSC-2n from AMAX. It came loaded with Debian. It has four NVIDIA Tesla 2050 GPU cards in it. That’s four times 448 cores per card = 1792 GPU cores in a workstation form factor. Here’s [ READ MORE ]

Clustering: Don’t turn the Rocks firewall off unless you know what you’re doing…

July 17th, 2008
Posted in High Performance Computing and Clusters

Recently Professor Diana Franklin was awarded an NSF grant to build a small high performance computing cluster here on campus. As the “friendly neighborhood system administrator” I volunteered to help build and run it. We chose UCSD’s Rocks Linux based clustering software for it. Rocks comes”out of the box” with most thing installed and [ READ MORE ]

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