The cluster is up and running

Some impressions on the current results and work in progress.

Since today all cluster nodes are up and running. Firmware and operating system updates have been performed and the administrative ssh key is distributed. NExt step is to enable LDAP and the nfs home directories on the compute nodes. This setups can be distributed via scripts.

This group is working on analyzing the numerical convergence properties of their version of the daisyworld:

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This is work done towards a temperature measurement driven air condition control unit:

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Distribution of the administrators ssh keys on the cluster nodes for the distributed shell:

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And here are two pictures of the cluster:

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Note the custom designed power distribution boards:

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