Hi On 03/08/2016 05:43 AM, Jeff Friedman wrote: > Hello all. I am just entering the HPC Sales Engineering role, and would > like to focus my learning on the most relevant stuff. I have searched > near and far for a current survey of some sort listing the top used > “stacks”, but cannot seem to find one that is free. I was breaking > things down similar to this:
"relevant" stuff is pretty relative to what you want to achieve ;) > _Provisioning software_: Cobbler, Warewulf, xCAT, Openstack, Platform HPC, ? > In case of Debian: FAI > _Configuration management_: Warewulf, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, ? > old school: cfengine, ... > _Resource and job schedulers_: I think these are basically the same > thing? Torque, Lava, Maui, Moab, SLURM, Grid Engine, Son of Grid Engine, > Univa, Platform LSF, etc… others? for high throughput computing: HTCondor > _Performance monitoring_: Ganglia, Nagios, ? Icinga, ... > Does anyone have any observations as to which of the above are the most > common? Or is that too broad? I believe most the clusters I will be > involved with will be in the 128 - 2000 core range, all on commodity > hardware. I guess everyone will have their preferences, if you wanted to get to some hard, recent numbers, one way would be to crate an online survey/form and ask many people to participate :) Cheers Carsten _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
