Using IPMItool to Manage and Monitor IPMI
Clusters can encounter many software and hardware health issues over extended periods of use. Since clusters are not static systems, there must be constant monitoring to reduce the possibility…
Managing Drives in MDADM (CentOS, Ubuntu)
Software RAID is becoming very common with Linux based workstation and server environments. The following sections in this blog post will help provide guidance on viewing the current software…
CentOS YUM Repository Moved and YUM Command Fails
Occasionally a YUM repository being offline (or removed) will cause YUM search, install commands to fail. This can cause issues, if you’re trying to get work done on the…
OpenIPMI/IPMITool Installation in CentOS, Using IPMITool to Read NVIDIA Tesla/Intel Phi Temperatures
With passively cooled accelerator cards becoming more and more common, installing and monitoring temperatures and fans via OpenIPMI and ipmitool are more important than ever. See the following for…
Case Study: Exxact GPU Cluster Accelerates Cancer Research at Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame was able to hasten cancer research for developing cancer vaccines with the addition of an Exxact AMBER Optimized GPU Solution. Notre Dame scientists closely…