On 08/03/16 05:43, 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.
https://sites.google.com/site/smallhpc/home, see "Files & Documents" section
I was breaking things down similar to this:
_OS disto_: CentOS, Debian, TOSS, etc? I know some come trimmed
down, and also include specific HPC libraries, like CNL, CNK, INK?
_MPI options_: MPICH2, MVAPICH2, Open MPI, Intel MPI, ?
_Provisioning software_: Cobbler, Warewulf, xCAT, Openstack, Platform
HPC, ?
_Configuration management_: Warewulf, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, ?
xCAT
Some sites (incl. the one I'm at) use Quattor (http://www.quattor.org/)
_Resource and job schedulers_: I think these are basically the same thing?
Not really, although there's some overlap.
Resource managers like Torque (PBS) are in charge of ... managing the
resources.
Job schedulers (e.g. Maui, MOAB) decide which job gets to start next,
and talk to the resource manager (i.e. poll for available resources,
instruct which job should start next, etc.).
Torque, Lava, Maui, Moab, SLURM, Grid Engine, Son of Grid Engine,
Univa, Platform LSF, etc… others?
_Shared filesystems_: NFS, pNFS, Lustre, GPFS, PVFS2, GlusterFS, ?
_Library management_: Lmod, ?
EasyBuild
(disclaimer: I'm the lead developer)
_Performance monitoring_: Ganglia, Nagios, ?
_Cluster management toolkits_: I believe these perform many of the
functions above, all wrapped up in one tool? Rocks, Oscar, Scyld,
Bright, ?
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.
See the "Small HPC Centers" survey I pointed to above.
K.
Thank you!
- Jeff
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