2013-08-23
I was able to obtain some right-angle SATA cables so I have some cable replacement to work on, they appear to be well shielded as well so hopefully I'll be able to eliminate an issue I've been having with the SSD drive now with the disk going offline on me. I also obtained a 50A@5VDC supply if needed.
2013-08-21
I have had the final 11 boards for over a week now but I have not had time to get them installed, configured and integrated into the cluster. I hope to get to it some time next week.
2013-08-11
I ordered the last 11 cubie boards today and if George ships as usual I might be able to get them installed and configured later this week.
I may need to purchase more micro sd cards.
2013-08-09
I am finally getting around to installing puppet on all the compute nodes with the master also handling puppetmaster duty.
With only 22-nodes it has already become tedious to make certain kinds of changes.
2013-08-08
$ sh cluster.txt
+ mpirun -f /master/mpi_tests/machinefile -n 22 /master/tmp/john-hf/john-1.7.9-jumbo-7/run/john --session=root /master/tmp/john-hf/john-1.7.9-jumbo-7/run/root.txt
Loaded 1 password hash (FreeBSD MD5 [32/32])
MPI: each node processing 1/22 of 1081 rules. (uneven split)
MPI: each node loaded 1/22 of wordfile to memory (about 302 KB/node)
$ sh cluster-status.txt
+ mpirun -n 22 -f /master/mpi_tests/machinefile ./john --status=root
8: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2373
9: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2309
16: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2250
21: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2253
12: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:01 0.00% (3) c/s: 2344
10: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2286
18: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2335
14: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2336
0: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2367
19: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2283
17: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2364
7: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2354
3: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2160
5: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2271
1: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2317
11: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2311
20: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2328
15: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2321
2: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2290
6: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2328
4: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2324
13: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2344
SUM: guesses: 0 time: 0:15:10:01 0.00% (3) c/s: 50859 avg 2311
+ date
Thu Aug 8 10:20:11 MDT 2013
+ sleep 300
^C
$
2013-08-07
I forgot to mention that I have (22) compute nodes plus one master node up and running now.
Each tier holds 11 systems, so eventually there will be (3) tiers with 11 per tier for 33 compute nodes. Perhaps one will be a spare: (32 compute nodes) + the master node + spare
$ mpirun -n 22 -f /master/mpi_tests/machinefile ./john --status=root
9: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2285
12: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2307
11: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2246
10: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2345
14: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2345
17: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2334
20: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2309
15: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2308
19: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2354
1: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2253
3: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2081
18: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2328
7: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2329
5: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2297
21: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2291
8: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2352
0: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2339
13: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2302
2: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2299
4: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2308
16: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2259
6: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 2303
SUM: guesses: 0 time: 0:04:20:00 0.00% (3) c/s: 50583 avg 2299
$
2013-08-05
2013-08-02
I have had zero time to work on the monolith project but I did have some time to take some pictures. It is a work in progress and I have a lot left to do.