I use my FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) software since a long time
for two different HPC clusters (and all my desktops) and several other
cluster were built using FAI. It does not only do first time initial
installations with disk partitioning and package installation, it also
does config mana
May also be of interest:
JobDigest – Detailed System Monitoring-Based Supercomputer Application
Behavior Analysis
Dmitry Nikitenko, Alexander Antonov, Pavel Shvets, Sergey Sobolev,
Konstantin Stefanov, Vadim Voevodin, Vladimir Voevodin and Sergey Zhumatiy
http://russianscdays.org/files/pdf1