Northeastern Cluster

Instructions for Accessing Northeastern Cluster

Projects

• Kaizen Production
• Monitoring in NEU Env.
• Staging Area
• VMs running on physical nodes

Equipment

NEU Equipment Sign-Out

• SERVERS
  • Cisco UCS C220 M3 SSF (x48). See this file for list of configuration components.
  • numbers 1-24 in rack 17, 25-48 in rack 19. Numbered from bottom of rack up.
  • More information specific to the Cisco UCS C220 nodes
  • Internal Storage
    • All nodes have a single 300GB drive in slot 1
    • These nodes also have an additional 1TB drive in slot 2: node 6, nodes 14-24, nodes 39-47
    • Node 48 (the haas master) has 3 additional 1TB drives
  • IPMI access VM Setup for Cisco IPMI Access
  • There is also a SuperMicro emergency box
    • default IPMI credentials: see bitwarden Kaizen Default SuperMicro Credentials
• SWITCHES
  • Cisco Nexus 5672 (x2)
  • More information at Cisco Switches (NEU cluster)
  • Servers are connected to the switch ports in order
    • on switch R3-C17, server 1 connects to port 1, server 2 to port 2, and so on up to server 24 to port 24.
    • on switch R3-C19, server 25 connects to port 1, server 48 to port 24.
• STORAGE Fujitsu CD10000
• Networks Northeastern Cluster Network Documentation

Setup/Configuration

• Foreman/Puppet
• Large Packet Problem
• Setting up External Network on RHEL 7 Nodes
• Installing CentOS 7 on a node hard drive

Miscellaneous

Misc. errors/problems

Updates

(5 Aug. 2016)

The top connections between R3-C17 and R3-C19 switches (VLAN3) are not being used (configured) right now. Thus, it would be possible to reclaim two ports from each of the two switches.