HPC Lab

Strip away the marketing and a supercomputer is five roles wired to a private network. Here's the mental model, and the groundwork for rebuilding a Sherlock-style HPC cluster on one Linux box.

1What an HPC cluster actually is (and how to fake one on a single box)June 9, 2026
2The two networks bare-metal guides skip, and booting the head nodeJune 10, 2026
3OpenHPC, Munge, and Slurm: wiring the cluster's brainJune 11, 2026
4Warewulf 4 and the art of treating servers as cattleJune 12, 2026
5The condo model and the money shot: watching Slurm preempt a jobJune 13, 2026