A Super Computer on every desk! Videos released!
I have released the first free CBTs on Beowulf/HPCC/SuperComputing (in English language) on my other website (http://www.wbitt.com) .
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I feel great pride and satisfaction today, to announce to you gentlemen, that I have made (first?) “free” CBTs / videos of HPCC in English language, and released them (free of cost) on my website: http://www.wbitt.com . This is my first step towards the objective to see “A SuperComputer on every desk!”. And I hope to have more strength and ability to continue serving the community.
The ultimate goal is kind of too big to summarize in words. By sharing these videos (and more), I hope to see more educated, more experienced HPC system administrators / cluster administrators in future. Also, a whole new breed of HPC programmers, as now, they should have a very affordable platform to develop their HPC programs. I also hope to see HPC being utilized in almost all fields of life. In my opinion, industry giants have somehow, made HPC, sort of an “un-touchable” technology for all, but for a very few. The brains and thoughts are also locked in a sense that super computing can only be used to make nuclear weapons, or to launch satellites, etc etc. ( I know scientific / health uses as well). I intend to have this barrier removed. Once every one will be using this technology, I am sure, people will find other uses as well, trickling all the way down to various aspects of our daily lives. I am sure that, just as internet was once un-heard of, has now become an integral part of our lives, supercomputing will also become the same. Time will tell.
Please feel free to refer/distribute these videos to anyone. They are for the community.
Check the downloads page for the file links.
Muhammad Kamran Azeem
26 April 2009
cool!!!
Salam o laikum sir,
Great sir…again a very nice effort.
May ALLAH Bless you sir.
keep doing the good work.
Regards,
Fahad
Asalam o Alykumsalam !
Excellent job ! My prayers with you. God bless you a lot, I am regular reader of your website and always wait for new things to come for learning. JazakAllah. Keep it up. God bless you, and help you to move forward.
Thanks and Regards.
Shakir Hussain
Asalam o Alikum wa Rahmatula hi Wabarakatahu
I don’t know how to thank you for your wonderful and inspiring work. I am in the Linux world Just Because of You. Your work inspired me so much. You are a Inspiration to me. I am also the regular visitor of your website. I want to see u on the top of Linux world. Keep up you good work.
Best Regards,
Muhammad Qadir Bakhsh
Assalam-u-alaikum,
Hope you are doing very well. My name is Atiq ur Rehman Bhatti and I am student of medical sciences, and in coming September, leaving for abroad for higher studies. As I am a technology geek, one of my friend suggested to learn Linux. I then started my world of Linux with your cbts and with the blessing of god i have learned a lot.
Thank you very much sir. I have downloaded all of your cbts and spread those to about 40 to 50 of my friends. May Allah bless you with the riches of the world. Now the only o/s which i use at home is Linux and I don’t like to use windows. Your new effort of making HPCC cbts is also a great effort and it will help us to learn more and more. Thanks a lot.
Aslam-o-alikum
Dear Kamran bhai,
May GOD bless you. You gave us right path to success. I did it with the help of your CBT’s, I can’t achieve this without your help.
Kind Regards,
Babar Zahoor
Assalam-u-alaikum,
Can I please ask all of you posting comments, to please add more to this topic. And also help in spreading the word. I mean, what are “you” doing to spread this to your peers, friends and all? If you are a student, have you tried to discuss with your university / institute’s officials, for possibility of having an in-expensive super computer for you all? And anyone who used it for something really interesting / production? I am also interested in having the hardware specs of your infrastructure which you used for your HPCC setup. And don’t forget to post your MPI benchmarks with the post.
And one more thing. Without hurting your feelings / love for me / my work, I would like to request you to please send the praises /appreciation to my personal email instead of the blogs. Lets have these blogs for more productive use.
Tahiati, wa, Ma’ ssalama,
(Regards),
Kamran
APPRO has recently launched it’s new HPC Cluster ready product. Visit the following website:
http://www.clusterconnection.com/2009/04/appro-and-intel-cluster-ready-video/
Hi,
I found your website by sliding through blogs. I found this idea “Supercomputer at a desktop” quite interesting, than watching the video CBT to build the cluster in English.
Also I’m a Windows System Administrator (in former time programmer C/C++) for me it was wonderful how easy you explain linux and basic steps.
1/2 year ago, I downloaded RedHat Server and wanted look what can do with migrating Servers from Windows to Linux. But after short time I was frustrated because all this information I found was confusing, nothing just to start basically. I thought for example: “How I start with directory service?” I found something with openLDAP and Samba in combination, many huge books, but this is not for starting.
Your CBTs in English I understood very good and I wanted to go forward to the Linux-Basics in the following clips but unfortunately it was in Urdu, what I not undertand. So, maybe you can do Linux-admin-clips also in English?
You linked to
http://showmedo.com/ for programming, what will surely also will be helpfull for me. In former times I programmed very much in Borland C (DOS), I did much programming. Today I want start with Linux, but difficult for me to start in and get the basics running.
This CBT you did is exactly what I looking for.
Hi Christoph,
Thanks a lot for the appreciation.
About the CBTs. Actually, I made them in 2006, purposely in Urdu, in an attempt to transfer the Linux knowledge to my fellow countrymen. I did not make it in English, because I witnessed at that time, that CBTs on Linux were already available in English language from people like Dean Davis (linuxcbts.net) and cbtnuggets etc. However, since past year, many from the English speaking world have also accessed me to make videos in English. I covered that request “partially” while making videos for HPCC. I think I have transferred enough knowledge in Urdu, and should now be back on track on making them in English. However, at the moment, I am kind of focussed on HPCC and related technologies only. I am in the process of making some CBTs on virtualization, but I cannot commit a completion date for that too. Making CBTs from/for basic-level is kind of difficult for me at this stage, just because of time constraints.
If you can get the CBTs from Dean Davis, they are really great. For the free version (from myside), you have to wait. (or worst, I cannot promise it).
In order to get more expertise on Linux in less time, I would recommend you to follow a “Course outline”, instead of jumping directly on topics like LDAP and Samba (as you have mentioned). It will be slower , but MUCH beneficial for you in the long run. Trust me. I am a trainer, and I know!
I will upload a course outline in next few days for you to follow. It is time tested. It is not just copy and paste. I made this 7/8 years ago and adjusted/perfected it over the years.
Hope it helps!
Regards,
Kamran
Salam to all,
I have uploaded the course outline here :-
http://www.wbitt.com/my-howtos/105-course-outline-for-learning-linux-.html
Regards,
Kamran
Hi Kamran,
I know some admins who would like to migrate from Windows to Linux but most of them not knew where starting, lost orientation, get stuck and short time later give up.
Someone said to me first: Try Gentoo, it’s best. But this is quite frustrating for a beginner. Then I tried Ubuntu and thought: Already much better, but hardware recognition was wrong, grafic bad, WLAN not working. But Evolution working with the Exchange server and this was a realy good feeling. Then I tried Redhat and had no problem to install a basic system, that already at once working.
So I have a working system. After I see your clips, I thought: This is exactly the right way to go forward.
I will look for Dean Davis CBTs and later tell you about success.
thanks a lot for your help.
Christoph
Hi Kamran,
I got forward very well in Linux. I already tried my knowledge at
Linux, BSD and Mac Computer and like it. Now understand what
means unixoid.
One thing I now very interested and want ask you:
Still I working at the Command-Level and TEXT-System.
Now I would like very very much to program something in
C like I did in DOS-Times, I mean in TEXT-Mode. In former
time exist such IDE like from Borland what integrated
Editor, Compiler, Debugger (C-Programming). Such I
looking for, but NOT X-Windows!
Second you told, that mySQL was taken over by Oracle.
Maybe better use Postgres as Database for my Linux
C-Programs? Maybe you have a Link where I can get
some Examples for usage in Linux. I more need examples
than a course, because I already know very good who
its working with DOS and now I want migrate my
C/C++ – programs to Linux.
Hi,
Sorry for late reply. I was too busy in another project. And I will remain busy next few days as well.
Regarding your query about an IDE in linux for C / C++. I can give you the following links. These links have a list of some famous and most widely used IDEs in linux.
I have seen emacs, KDevelop, QT4 and Glade, being used most of the time.
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Devtools/ides.html
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/C++Programming-HOWTO-12.html
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialXemacs.html
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Kamran
Kamran,
thanks very much for your links, I will look what matching best for me (IDE) and tell you later how my C-programs runing at Linux.
Christoph