Kail's Blog

Somewhat HPC related blog

  • Running Netboot.xyz From OPNSense

    After working with some PXE booting at work recently, I decided to pick up a long standing todo of installing netboot.xyz on my network. When I started to take a deeper look into it I realized I could probably install it on my OPNSense VM as it is the …

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  • Adding Anaconda Environment to Jupyter

    When using Jupyter, or Jupyterlab, you'll often times want to use different anaconda environments for different projects. Especially when you are working on a personal workstation. Unfortunately, even when installed with anaconda at the root level, jupyter doesn't automatically detect installed anaconda environments.

    For example, in a default jupyterhub install …

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  • Cleaning Scratch Sub-directories

    We recently ran into an issue with a high speed scratch file system after some drive failures. While the metadata was intact we could not guarantee that any of the user data was any good. Since the metadata was good, we could keep the top level user scratch directories intact …

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  • Hide Pelican Articles on Output

    Authors: Andrew Kail

    While working on this website I had started to draft a lot of articles in preparation to develop some consistency and start to flesh out a book on HPC.

    In doing so, I found that there was no way to prevent these articles from being generated and …

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