setting up a beowulf cluster with MPich3

[jobalisk]

Hello all

A while back I thought it would be really cool to make a beowulf cluster. I gathered together 3 2007 dell servers with duel xeon processors, 16gb of ram a piece and 1tb of storage over raid per server. I installed Ubuntu 20 on them all, set up Mpich, SSL, configured static IP addresses, added each server to each others host files and all that stuff, but then I got stuck. I've never used MPich3 or SSL before and so although I have them talking to each other (I've pinged all 3 nodes from each other) and although I have a special user set up ready to go for shared tasks, I don't know how to actually configure the computers, is anyone able to help.

 

[KGIII]

I don't have an answer, but I dimly recalled that we actually have a tutorial for this.

Parallel Clustering

Parallel Clustering allows for multiple systems to run programs together as if they were one system. A Parallel Cluster is also called a Beowulf Cluster. In my previous article, “Linux Cluster – Basics”, I covered the various types of Clusters. I went through the process of setting up a...

www.linux.org

Considering they post a lot of tutorials, I'm gonna guess it's pretty good - but I haven't followed this one.