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not available in my country
nvm vanilla is shit
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What workloads are you going to be running on the cluster, and what are you aiming to do with it?
Thoughts:
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The rack mount version is the R230 (http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-r230/pd).
@flatland_spider - you rock!! thanks for pointing me to slurm, LMOD you seem to be the only one who read the help request on the build.
We are looking for a poor mans devops cluster for websites.
I am looking to host websites @ our workshop basement with approximately 200 websites. (Dentists, HVAC, small gas stations stores, I am hosting both wordpress and IIS sites.)
https://pcpartpicker.com/ could you share a package - where I can understand and plan the prices.
Found another cheaper 199.00 deal, for the T30, Goto Dell Business
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Intel Pentium G4400 3.3GHz 3M cache, 2C/2T, no turbo (54W), 4GB memory, Intel C236 and 1TB cabled HDD.
No Operating System
Up to 6 total SATA HDDs (4 x 3.5” SATA HDD + 2 additional 2.5” SATA HDD (w/ expansion kit and optional controller card) Optical bay: Internal DVD+/-RW (standard on Intel Xeon configuration, optional on Intel Pentium configuration)
4 slots: 1 PCIe x16 3.0 + 1 PCIe x16 3.0 (x4 speed) + 1 PCIe x4 3.0 + 1 PCI
if you like please thank me - I also posted another Xeon E3-1225 (v5) Dell PowerEdge T3 Server deal here
Merged discussions - This doesn't need two threads.
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Ah, okay. That's simpler then what what people mean when they say cluster in my day job.
Are these all Windows machines or would they mostly be Linux?
Don't worry about Slurm. It's used to spread batch jobs across many machines, and it's probably not going to be useful. LMOD might be useful if you're going to deploy custom built binaries for things like PHP, Ruby, Python, or whatever, and it's good for testing different environments without messing up the base machine if nothing else.
Some sort of config management is going to be useful.
The T30 with the Xeon should work fine for a starter web cluster. Upgrading the RAM with a second 8GB stick would unlock the dual channel memory controller, and that will help with memory latency.
Linux isn't as sensitive to slow disks as Windows is. Windows hits the page file early and often which can result in lots of disk access, so moving the page file to an underprovisioned SSD is a good idea.
Here is how a SaaS company I used to work for had their web cluster setup:
I would say database servers are probably a bigger deal then shared storage, since Dbs are performance critical, but a single disk is going to be point of failure. 10G Ethernet would be good for the backend network, but you could also get away with 1G Ethernet bonded. Trade offs.
There are lots of things that could be done, and it just depends on how crazy you want to get.
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I can throw somethings together, and send some links to you. It will probably be later this weekend though.
2 products 2 different markets/groups of people cheaper vs cheap
should I stop posting deals here then!