Response to notinhnotien7:
We think that there should be more publicly available information about building and running clusters, which is why all of the student material is available via our Wiki. We require all of our instructors to allow us to post their material, and the instructors--and the organizations for which they work--have graciously complied.
You can find the material for the different courses at https://www.middleware.georgetown.edu/confluence/display/HPCT/Home.
Response to pbock:
Yes, as a builder and maintainer of clusters one is required to know something of everything. Fortunately, things are getting easier on the administration side in part because there are now many hardware companies that will do the testing to make sure those NICs work with the motherboards on Linux.
Jess Cannata
Advanced Research Computing &
High Performance Computing Training
Georgetown University
jac67@georgetown.edu »