Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 22:10:18 +0100 From: Tim Cutts <t...@sanger.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Rackable / SGI To: "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk> Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org
On 5 Apr 2009, at 6:32 pm, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Tim Cutts and the Sanger Inst. aren't enough to convince senior > management that Debian is workable, even though HP and IBM will both support > it. >> Hehe. I'd be very worried if my reputation *were* considered big >> enough to swing that sort of decision. :-) [sorry in digest mode here with some cut and paste action, I have very small chunks of time to reply to beowulf these days] However, not for nothing, that reputation sure as hell is big enough IMHO :) (as a pre p.s. : Hi Tim!!) So anyway, just recently at the advice from some of our Sr. sysadmins, we started out over here in the other Cambridge with this thing called puppet, in our HPC environment... http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/ It has a few issues at 6600+ cpu, they still have some "puppet master" issues. However, nothing that can't be overcome. All I know is that it seems to "just work" (tm) for a pretty large multi site cross campus and beyond cluster installation. We do do what I like to call "puppet lite", just bits of the OS and config (lsf/ssh/nagios etc) rather than the whole shebang... The OS is still a traditional DHCP/PXE bootstrap. As always YMMV... and more often than not, it certainly will! Best, j. -- Dr. James Cuff, Director of Research Computing & Chief Technology Architect Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Information Technology Room 135, The Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge. MA. 02138 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
