LittleFe Cluster

To do (before Friday October 21st):

• Setup pre BCCD environment with two nodes for comparison
• DHCP/PXE on new BCCD environment (does the BCCD have all the basic software that we need?)
• Configure diskless booting on new BCCD environment
• Document and Script
  • How to fossilize BCCD onto basic hardware (mostly instructions)
  • How to customize BCCD into Little-Fe (scripts and instructions)
    • DHCP/PXE configuration
    • Diskless booting configuration
    • Apache configuration
    • Ganglia configuration
    • User create/remove scripts
• Backup procedure to drive on lf1 from drive on lf0, complete and bootable

Fossilizing the BCCD onto Little-Fe

HPC Wire article (very stale now)

Hardware Manifest

To Be Sorted

• Design Notes
• Initial Setup
• General Specifications
• Power draw
• Motherboard Information
  • BIOS downloads
  • Overview and Downloads
  • Detailed description
  • Article about Linux on VIA-M series boards
  • Manual (local PDF file)
  • Manual (on-line)
  • Marketing glossies (local PDF file)
• Networking
• Transition to DHCP (old)
• Adding WAP
• Startup
• Shutdown
• Todo
• PXE Booting
• Wake-on-LAN
• Pictures
• BIOS Upgrade