On 29/09/16 00:34, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote: > I worked always w/very small HPC clusters and built them manually > (each server). But what is reasonable to do for clusters containing > some tens or hundred of nodes ?
As Tim and Craig have mentioned there are lots of ways to deal with this, we use xCAT for our systems but it does tend to assume that you have decent hardware with IPMI adapters so it can do remote power control, console logging, etc. I've got to say helping out another group who went the Puppet way for their cluster I *really* miss those features, along with xCAT's default of making clients syslog back to the management node. There's also OpenHPC now which is uses Warewulf for its cluster management. We run diskless nodes which means every compute node boots the same osimage so we know that all our compute nodes on the same image are identical. All the best! Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci _______________________________________________ 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
