miniHPC Hackday: Building, Testing, and Sharing Best Practices

Contribution List

1. Pixie miniHPC

Dr Jannetta Steyn (Newcastle University)

Built from six Raspberry Pi 4s. One login node and five compute nodes. Work to be done:

1. Create EESSI server for complete offline service
2. Adapt Carpentries Intro to HPC for the cluster
3. Script installation of login and compute node OSes.

2. Visible HPC

Dr Jeremy Cohen (Imperial College)

Jeremy's DRIFT "Visible HPC" training cluster

The "Visible HPC" mini-HPC portable training cluster is a 32+4-node Raspberry Pi 5 cluster developed to support the provision of introductory High Performance Computing training to a range of groups within the research community, from researchers to technical professionals to facilitators and engagement managers. The core motivation...