Cluster Platform Knowledgebase¶

This site documents the considerations and guidelines for designing and developing a HPC platform for cluster computing. The documentation describes general practices and considerations when designing a HPC platform as well as recommendations and guides used by Alces Software to configure HPC platforms.

Acknowledgements¶

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License¶

This documentation is released under the Creative-Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

HPC Cluster Platform¶

This knowledgebase document is broken down into the following sections:

Introduction¶

Network and Hardware¶

Infrastructure¶

Base System Deployment¶

Repository Management¶

User Management¶

Storage¶

Monitoring¶

Hardware Drivers¶

HPC Environment¶

Verification¶

Deployment on AWS¶

Setting Up AWS Environment for HPC Platform