On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Digimer wrote:
On 02/04/14 02:54 PM, Bill Oliver wrote:
>
> Just to see if I can do it, I thought I'd set up a small grid/cluster
> using fedora. Does anybody know of a good step-by-step guide for this
> (preferably free and online :-) )?
>
> Thanks,
>
> billo
What kind of cluster? There are two main types;
1. High-Availability (HA)
2. High-Performance Computing (HPC)
There is also 'Load Balancing', which is a form of HPC. In the HA space, it's
faily easy to write tutorials as a given config can more or less be applied
to numerous use-cases. In the HPC/LB world, it really comes down to the
problem you're trying to solve.
I'm more interested in high performance.
I'm a forensic pathologist, but my background is also in image processing and image
analysis. When I was in the military, I mostly did image analysis on cases of national
interest. People would give me imagery of beheadings, executions, torture, hostage
photos, mass killings, etc. and I would evaluate the imagery to see what was there from a
forensic pathology perspective. For those of you in the US who watch NCIS, I had
"Ducky's" job (though the NCIS doesn't have it's own ME; there's
an "Armed Forced Medical Examiner Service" that all federal cases needing that
kind of evaluation are referred to).
Not to show my age, but if you are interested, here's a couple of cases that were not
classified and were published:
Oliver WR, Baker AM, Powell JD, Cotone CM, Meeker J. Estimation of body exposure to
explosion. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2002 Sep;23(3):252-6.
Oliver WR, Boxwala A, Rosenman J, Cullip T, Symon J, Wagner G. Three-dimensional
visualization and image processing in the evaluation of patterned injuries. The AFIP/UNC
experience in the Rodney King case. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 1997 Mar;18(1):1-10.
It's pretty primitive looking back on it, but it was a some years ago I published
these.
Anyway, while my civilian job is more traditional death investigation, I still do a fair
amount of image analysis for clients as a private sideline. So, I'm interested in
doing stuff like image manipulation in frequency space, wavelet decomposition, etc. of
large numbers of images.
Also, I'm interested in setting up a neural network to help me with my fantasy
baseball picks :-).
billo