Cluster Design

The main design elements of the cluster will be as follows

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The cluster will have seven virtual machines (VMs)

  1. One head/control node

  2. One login node

  3. Three compute nodes

  4. Two storage nodes

All the VMs will have the

  1. OS Rocky Linux 9.6 (Blue Onyx)

    • AMI: ami-0f2425d4cce4e97dd

    • Instance Type: t3.2xlarge

  2. BeeGFS is used as the shared filesystem

  3. OpenPBS is used as the HPC job scheduler

  4. OpenLDAP is used for user management

  5. Prometheus and Grafana is used for cluster monitoring

We use the following nomenclature throughout

  • Each machine/VM in the cluster will be called node

  • The laptop or the desktop we use will be called local system