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Downloading Your Own Cluster and Accessing It

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Vladimír Ulman edited this page Feb 10, 2023 · 3 revisions

You can download a pre-made VirtualBox HPC Cluster appliance here as one file (13 GB).

It comes with three virtual machines -- three nodes of a homemade small cluster. To get inside any of the three nodes, the username is fiji and the password is 12345678.

When deploying the appliance into your VirtualBox installation, use the existing MAC addresses to avoid manual network configuration. Once you have set up a functional virtual cluster, you can go through the worksheets of this Short Guide.

It is worthwhile reviewing the manual installation page to understand better what's inside the virtual machines, what to possibly test--check, and what may go wrong if things work unexpectedly.

Feel absolutely free to reach us, for example via the issue tracking system, to ask for help or give feedback.

Short Guide Worksheets

Remote cluster

  1. Comfortably install cluster-side tools

  2. Manually install cluster-side tools

    1. Note: The cluster-side tools are technically the Parallel Macro and OpenMPI Ops

  3. Download and use your own cluster

    1. Note: A small homemade cluster for testing, or when you cannot access a big HPC

  4. Building from scratch your own cluster and configuring it

    1. Note: You will learn and understand everything that's behind the scenes
    2. Additional Useful Information

Local computer

  1. How to install HPC Workflow Manager client

  2. How to set up the paradigm for Parallel Macro

  3. Using HPC Workflow Manager to start a new macro job

  4. Monitoring progress, output and error reporting

  5. How to write a parallel macro

    1. List of available macro functions

  6. How to write a parallel macro part 2

  7. How to use the progress reporting functions

  8. Demonstration of a real parallel macro

  9. Running OpenMPI Ops though HPC Workflow Manager

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