Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:44:07 -0400 From: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> To: Brian Kim <briansan24@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Setting up a UNIX cluster Message-ID: <A61423FB-AFC8-461C-8617-14613A255FC0@foolishgames.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BWSJLeMbN_Nj1Hdo%2BCdbppnwPcAi_a86G85djYoVrqQU3DxLg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BWSJLeMbN_Nj1Hdo%2BCdbppnwPcAi_a86G85djYoVrqQU3DxLg@mail.gmail.com>
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Depending on the number of systems to manage, you can either use a PXE boot o= r do individual installs.=20 When I was a student at emu, I setup a cluster of 22 dells with midnightbsd t= o build packages on our magus system and created some Shell scripts to sync a= ll the nodes software and created ssh keys and had a management script to pu= sh down configuration changes. We only had an old netgear 10/100 switch and w= ere h behold an osx box doing nat so it was faster to install rather than px= e boot We bought some low cost shelving from Home Depot to hold them and put them i= n an unused classroom Lucas Holt > On Mar 10, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Brian Kim <briansan24@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > Dear friends, >=20 > I am currently a teaching assistant for a freshman programming course at > Villanova University. Gloriously enough, we are teaching the C language. > The majority of the students have not had any previous experience in > programming so the extent of their computing knowledge is limited to the > grotesque Windows operating system that they have grown up with. Therefore= , > before any discussion of programming begins, I want the students to be > familiarized with the UNIX environment so that they can gcc all their code= > and not have to be chained down to IDE's. > In order to accomplish this, I have amassed a number of old Dell computers= > that the department has long abandoned and I wish to set up a computer > cluster running FreeBSD. I personally do not have any experience in settin= g > up clusters and was hoping to request any instructional advice in this > regard. > I have come across this paper ( > http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/fbsdcluster.pdf) that > describes the process of setting up a BSD cluster with 300 nodes but I > found the language to be somewhat dense. There is also the fact that I do > not have any specialized hardware other than a bunch of old computers. > Assuming that I have a network switch, could anyone help me out with a > starting point? >=20 > Thanks! > --=20 > Best Wishes, > Brian Kim > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=
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