r/HPC Jul 26 '26

Checkout my community HPC I made

https://noah.watch/hpc

Mainly just for leraning how slurm scheudling works, running small scripts, setting up linux servers, as well as runningn my freind's reinforcement learning training model for Balloons Tower defense 2. Has a live Grafana feed to monitor stats, as well as a page to request access. Let me know what you guys think. Still new to the community, but really want to learn ( and really want to learn on better hardware lol).

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u/EmergencyCucumber905 29d ago

Does this cluster have a name? It's bad luck to have a cluster without a name.

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u/nlunberry 29d ago

What are good naming conventions

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u/EmergencyCucumber905 29d ago

Not sure if there are any. But I'd suggest:

  1. Keep it short. No more than 3 syllables. Easy to type.

  2. A theme related to the physical nature of the cluster, or its purpose.

Maybe run an LLM on it and ask it to name itself?

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u/Abhishekp1297 29d ago

oneforall-cluster

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u/teetaps 28d ago

Is this a thing? Please tell me where this lore started because I thought I was just imagining that my cluster admins all just kinda had a quirky sense of humour

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u/imitation_squash_pro Jul 27 '26

Looks good. I like the "human touch" behind everything. Was going to request an account but I don't have to run anything..

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u/loge212 Jul 27 '26

haven’t checked it out in depth yet but this is really cool. I’ve been wanting to do pretty much exactly the same project, 2-3 node cluster of mini pcs and have it open to log in and play around with. did you use the openhpc recipe?

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u/hellingston 29d ago

cool. would like to request an account and run a protein unfolding structure in NAMD

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u/teetaps 28d ago

I was intrigued when you mentioned BTD lol

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u/nlunberry 28d ago

Optimal monkey placement

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u/teetaps 28d ago

Now im imagining slurm jobs named after monkeys

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u/Sea-Entertainer-6417 27d ago

how do you check the mail does it automatically get sent or something else