Gentoo Cluster Project: Main Page
Donnie Berkholz
Author
Updated 20 February 20091.
What is the Gentoo Cluster Project?
The Gentoo Cluster Project aims to make Gentoo a desirable platform
for high-performance and high-availability clustering. The project
will develop documentation and support for designing and implementing
clusters. This will increase Gentoo's visibility in enterprise-level
computing.
Please join us in IRC on freenode.net, #gentoo-cluster.
Adelie Linux has
contributed to the high-performance subproject.
2.
Clusters using Gentoo
Medium to large clusters
This is a brief list of known clusters running Gentoo that have at least
32 cores. Please contact the clustering team
if you know of one not yet on this list or have updated information for one
already on this list.
- 7783 cores in 2284 mixed nodes (AMD64, Pentium-4 and Xeon), at
2009-02-20 and expanding by Hyves (Startphone Ltd) for www.hyves.nl
- 5832 cores in 972 6 GFlops MIPS nodes in the SiCortex SC5832
- 960 cores in 224 mixed nodes (2.6GHz, 2.2GHz Opteron single/dual/quad core, 3.0GHz Xeon dual core) at the University of Bern Central IT Services
- 512 cores in 256 Apple Xserve G5 nodes at the University of Maine
- 408 cores in 88 mixed nodes (Quad Opteron and Xeon) at Zymeworks Inc. http://zymeworks.com
- 296 cores in 135 mixed nodes (2.8 GHz Opteron and 2.8 GHz Xeon) at the University of Delaware's Delaware Biotechnology Institute
- 268 cores in 134 2.8 GHz Xeon nodes at the University of Idaho
- 256 cores in 128 Opteron nodes at Indiana University
- 256 cores in 3.0 GHz Pentium-4 nodes at Simon Fraser University-Surrey (TechBC)
- 200 cores in IBM xSeries rendering cluster at Attitude Studio
- 160 cores in 80 Pentium-3 933 MHz nodes at SUNY-Stony Brook
- 130 cores in mixed nodes (2.20 GHz Opteron, 3.00 GHz Dual Core Xeon, 2.66 GHz Quad Core Xeon) at Laval University in Québec City
- 80 cores in 26 mixed nodes (1.8 GHz and up) at Kansas State University
- 72 cores in mixed nodes (1.4 GHz and up) at the University of Edinburgh
- 68 cores at Tufts University
- 64 cores in 32 mixed nodes (27 1.4 GHz Athlon MP, 5 2.0 GHz Athlon MP) at the University of Edinburgh
- 64 cores in 32 nodes (IBM eServer) at the University of Manchester
- 64 cores in 8 nodes (Xeon E5430) at the University of Aveiro, Portugal
- 54 cores in 1.2 GHz Athlon nodes at the University of Idaho
- 40 cores in 20 Pentium-2 nodes at the University of Trollhättan/Uddevalla
- 36 cores in 18 mixed nodes (6 Dual Xeon 2.0GHz, 12 Dual PIII 866MHz) at Montana State University
- 32 cores in 16 2.4 GHz Xeon nodes at the University of Pennsylvania Chemistry Department
- 32 cores in mixed MIPS nodes (25 R4400 SGI Indigo2 & 7 R5000 SGI Indy) at Simon Fraser University-Surrey (TechBC)
- 32 cores in 8 nodes (Intel Q9550 2.83 Ghz) at Università Politecnica
delle Marche - Italy. http://cluster.univpm.it
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Gentoo Cluster Subprojects
Active Subprojects
The current active subprojects in the Gentoo Cluster Project are:
| Project: |
Description: |
| High-Performance Computing |
This subproject is developing documentation for and supporting
high-performance clusters. |
| High-Availability Clusters |
This subproject is developing documentation for and preparing
to support high-availability clusters.
|
4.
Gentoo Cluster Personnel
Each person working on the Gentoo Cluster Project is listed here
alphabetically. Full time
indicates that their main Gentoo position is on this project, part time
indicates that their main position lies in another area but they do
additional work with this project.
5.
How Do I Participate?
To participate in the Gentoo Cluster Project, please contact
the clustering team via e-mail or IRC.