Hi all.
I'm writing to you to ask for advice or a hint to the right direction.
In our department, more and more researchers ask us (IT administrators)
to assemble (or to buy) GPGPU powered workstations to do parallel computing.
As I already manage a small CPU cluster (resources managed using SGE),
with my boss we talked about building a new GPU cluster. The problem is
that I have no experience at all with GPU clusters.
Apart from the already running GPU workstations, we already have some
new HW that looks promising to me as a starting point for a GPU cluster.
- 1x Dell PowerEdge R720
- 1x Dell PowerEdge C410x
- 1x NVIDIA M2090 PCIe x16
- 1x NVIDIA iPASS Cable Kit
(Dell forgot to include the iPASS adapter for the R720!! :-D)
I'd be grateful if you could kindly give me some advice and/or hint to
the right direction.
In particular I'm interested on your opinion on:
1) is the above HW suitable for a small (2 to 4/6 GPUs) GPU cluster?
2) is apache adhoop suitable (or what could we use?) as a queuing and
resource management system? We would like the cluster to be usable by
many users at once in a way that no user has to worry about resources,
just like we do on the CPU cluster with SGE.
3) What distribution of linux would be more appropriate?
4) necessary stack of sw? (cuda, hadoop, other?)
Thank you very much for your valuable insight!
Best regards.
Robi
