As a part of my lab assignment , in this post i’ll explain the procedure regarding the set-up of Beowulf cluster.
What is a Beowulf Cluster?
A Beowulf Cluster is a collection of privately networked computers which can be used for parallel computations. They consist of commodity hardware running open source software such as Linux or a BSD, often coupled with PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) or MPI (Message Passing Interface). A standard set up will consist of one master node which will control a number of slave nodes. The slave nodes are typically headless and generally all access the same files from a server. They have been referred to as Beowulf Clusters since before 1998 when the original Beowulf HOWTO was released.
I worked in a group of three. we set up the cluster using-open-mpi-on-linux. Two of the machine act as slave & one as master node.
we just followed the procedure describe in this blog . so i will not state the same thing here. some important things are that :
one need to get root access for running above command in shell. for this type “sudo su” in shell and then enter root password .
Instead of slave1,slave 2 , one need to enter the ip-address of corresponding machines which one could easily get by entering command “ifconfig”.
Rest all the thing is same as described in blog.
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