[Pkg-scicomp-devel] High performance computing?

[Christophe Prud'homme]

Jason,

| I work for a company that sells high performance computing clusters of
| the Beowulf flavor. In the six years of our existence, no one has ever
| requested a Debian cluster. 
I use to work at EPFL and I happen to know that transtec[1] sold a few Debian 
clusters there (and I used two of them) Unfortunately the system 
administration was not really topnotch.
Nest time I have money to buy a cluster, it will be a Debian one and hopefully 
it will happen in a near future.

| I hope that some day that can change as I 
| am an avid fan of Debian. There are a number of critical software
| packages that will need to be made available for this to occur. Off
| the top of my head, a few are:

| OFED (provides Infiniband drivers and utilities)
would be nice to have
do they have the proper licensing ?

| MVAPICH (Infiniband enabled message passing API)
| MVAPICH2
I guess it is MPI for infiniband no ?
there is already mpich, lam and openmpi, that would need to play nice
with these ones and some coordination would be needed with the maintainers of 
these packages I guess

| ganglia cluster monitoring software
ganglia is already available (is the debian version not satisfactory?)

| torque cluster resource scheduling daemon
would be a nice addition

|
| Is anyone working on these? If not how could I help a DD on this list
| make them available?
at the moment I am more on the software side (trilinos for example which is a 
huge beast). I would really like having the tools you mentioned and it would 
also be very interesting to have "industrial" feedback on what Debian has to 
offer in scientific/high performance computing.


 1. www.transtec.ch, www.transtec.fr

Best regards
C.
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