From BCCD 3.0

Getting Started

• Requirements
• Burning the BCCD to CD
• Booting up the CD

Basic Information

• Install Instructions
• User Instructions
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Submitting bug reports
• Submitting feature requests
• Using Bluetooth devices
• Mailing list links
  • Subscribe to bccd-developers
  • bccd-developers archive

Developer Information

• Development Instructions
• Development FAQ
• Testing the BCCD
• BCCD ISO Testing - Logs
• VirtualBox Test Environment
• Test Log
• Work Log
• Meeting Notes
• SoftwareBuildNotes
• Release Engineering

Configuring and Customizing

• BCCD Bootup Modes
• Network Environment
• Saving Stuff
• Customization Tips and Tricks

Applications and Curricular Components

Built-in MPI Modules:

• Hello World for MPI
• Game of Life
• Parameter Space
• GalaxSee

Additional Modules and Applications:

• Introduction to DNA - This is a great place to start for biological background on using GROMACS and mpiBLAST.
• Proteins and Folding
• About mpiBLAST
• Running mpiBLAST

Tools and Clustering

• Compiling and Running MPI
  • Running MPICH
  • Running Open MPI
• Debugging Tools
• Cluster Command Control (C3) tools
• High Performance Linpack (HPL) Benchmark

Articles

• Referencing current, BCCDv3:
  • Teaching High Performance Computing to Undergraduate Faculty and Undergraduate Students (PDF) DOI
• Referencing classic, BCCDv2:
  • Something Wonderful this Way Comes
  • High-Performance Computing in Community Colleges?
  • Supercomputer based laboratories and the evolution of the personal computer based laboratory
  • Building of a GNU/Linux-based Bootable Cluster CD
  • New Directions for Computational Science Education

Feedback

• Troubleshooting
• Ideas

Note: This is beta software, and should not even be interpreted as production-quality.

Licensing

The free stuff

BCCDv3, defined as the build, automation, and testing framework and other software contributed by the BCCD developers, is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3.

The core of BCCDv3 is based off Debian. All software packaged by Debian must meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines, which include licenses found here.

Some of the stacking filesystem support and hardware autodetection is based off KNOPPIX, which is licensed under the GNU General Public license, version 2.

The stacking filesystem the BCCD uses is AUFS, which is licensed under the GNU General Public license, version 2.

The non-free stuff

The basic software you need to use the BCCD is all freely available. Some of the software (all found in /bccd/software) is licensed solely for use inside the BCCD environment. The software in this category includes but is not limited to:

• intelcc
• dreamm
• mcell
• PSC_DX

The authors of these software packages generously provide free licensing to the BCCD project to further our educational mission, so please be respectful and don't copy this software outside the BCCD.

Explanation

What does all this license legalese mean? In short, the BCCD is free and open-source for all, with the notable exceptions above. You may use it, modify, and redistribute yourself as long as all the license terms remain intact.