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>3.2. Hardware Setup Guidelines</H1
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> Setting up a big cluster requires some thinking to be done:
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where are you going to put the machines? Not under a table somewhere
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or in the middle of your office I hope! It's ok if you just want to
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do some small tests, but if you are planning to deploy a N node
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cluster you will have to make sure that the environment that will hold
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these machines is capable of doing so.</P
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> I'm talking about preparing one or more 19" racks to host the
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machines, configuring the appropriate network topology, either straight,
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single connected or even a 1 to 1 cross connected network between all
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your nodes. You will also need to make sure that there is enough
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power to support such a range of machines, that your air-conditioning
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system supports the load and that in case of power-failure your UPS
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can cleanly shut down all the required systems. You might want to
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invest in a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) Switch in order to facility
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> But even if you don't have the number of nodes that justifies
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such an investment, make sure that you can always easily access the
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different nodes, you never know when you have to replace a CPU fan or
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an hard-disk of a machine in trouble. If that means that you have to
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unload a stack of machines to reach the bottom one, hence shutting
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