On 09/28/2016 07:34 AM, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote:
> I worked always w/very small HPC clusters and built them manually
> (each server).
Manual installs aren't too bad up to 4 nodes or so.
> But what is reasonable to do for clusters containing some tens or
> hundred of nodes ?
We use cobbler for D
We have our latest cluster software stack for a distributed set of clusters
built on Ansible:
https://github.com/CSC-IT-Center-for-Science/fgci-ansible
A recent presentation at the SLURM User Group on Ansiblizing SLURM:
https://gitpitch.com/CSC-IT-Center-for-Science/ansible-role-slurm/gitpitch
Acknowledging that this is an area where personal preference and existing
culture play a very big role in what works for any given group/environment,
I'll attempt an answer noting how this works for us. Warning: I'm prone to
ranting...
We use the paid version (with .edu discount) and users must ha
