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Hello All, The type of cluster is a HPC. Jobs are submitted to the nodes through SGE from the head to one of 12 nodes. Hardware question - answered by a suggestion of using Amazon or Access to Vmware. I have access to Vmware as well as a Dell Workstation with 12G of Ram and about 1 TB space. Going with the Vmware idea it sounds like a better option is to create a virtual head node and maybe three nodes all in Vmware. Include a means for centralized logins for this environment as a start. Wish to make it a Debian environment. Continue to research. Thanks, Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Goldman To: discuss at blu.org Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:49 AM Subject: Education - becoming a Cluster Administrator Holiday Greeting to all! My manager suggested I learn how to become a "linux cluster administrator". The question at hand is how best to do it? My organization currently has access to a cluster environment that is supported by an outside consultant. I have an account on the system which consist of an Ubuntu head node and 8 other servers under it. I manage shared storage that attach to the cluster but have no admin access to it. Essentially, I am a team of one and train myself. I am not a Linux wizard. I support structured cabling, Windows desktops, Windows servers, Linux storage servers running RHEL 5.5 -6.1. Continuing to improve my skills as needed to fit the environment. Additionally I maintain a back end network, small machine room and Cisco 2800 router. The direction is to build a small test cluster.There is room in the machine to add test equipment and access to ip address. The operating system of the cluster will be Ubuntu 10.04 - and to install SGE to manage jobs. The question is obtaining the hardware .. maybe from Ebay. I looks like I would pay for it or maybe find another more cost effective way to train. That is the issue. If it come down to it I am willing to invest in my training. Please share your thoughts.. Thanks, Stephen
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