Further considerations
In this part, I would keep some notes on tools or softwares that I haven't fully determined to merge into the main workflow on HPC2, it is kept for possible future technology selections.
List of typical HPCs:
OpenHPC
Not included, using spack instead
Official repo, note it has a github wiki page
Cool wiki list on what tools they contained, and possible an important list of softwares that might be useful for HPC in general.
Not a valid option for debian?
Easybuild
Not included, using spack instead
Alternatives to spack.
Modules
Not included, using lmod by spack
Not a fan of this due to the language it utilized.
Lmod
alternatives to modules, merged to the main workflow under spack
Lustre or BeeGFS
file system for HPC
Lustre: need patch on kernel, not considering for mini clusters.
Some configuration reference on lustre: post
Small files benchmarking on distrubuted FS post
Analysis of Six Distributed File Systems
GlusterFS
Seems very promising and easy to configure, also more suitable for a small cluster. But after some reading, it seems not to be a good choice as the main fs for HPC.
Discussion on the comparison between gluster and lustre
Desktop
ThinLinc
A remote server specially desinged for clusters: site
X11 forward
See here. Merged to the main workflow
Globus
large file transfer service
Name Service Switch
man NSSWITCH.CONF
LDAP
openLDAP for user management: tutorial
openLDAP configure: post
BACKUP and sync
Borg Backup
restic
decided to try this in main workflow
very cool and nice softwares with friendly and clear docs!
general resources
Parallel Scheme beyond MPI
hadoop
spark
chapel
language designed for parallel
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