NPACI Rocks: tools and techniques for easily deploying manageable Linux clusters

Papadopoulos, Philip M.; Katz, Mason J.; Bruno, Greg

doi:10.1002/cpe.722

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“…The most popular open source ones are OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resource) [5] and Rocks [6]. Both integrate other free tools and offer an easy manner to install the cluster system.…”

Section: Deployment Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

HPC Environment Management: New Challenges in the Petaflop Era

Dias

Aveleda

2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. High Performance Computing (HPC) is becoming much more popular nowadays. Currently, the biggest supercomputers in the world have hundreds of thousands of processors and consequently may have more software and hardware failures. HPC centers managers also have to deal with multiple clusters from different vendors with their particular architectures. However, since there are not enough HPC experts to manage all the new supercomputers, it is expected that non-experts will be managing those large clusters. In this paper we study the new challenges to manage HPC environments containing different clusters with different sizes and architectures. We review available tools and present LEMMing [1], an easy-to-use open source tool developed to support high performance computing centers. LEMMing integrates machine resources and the available management and monitoring tools on a single point of management.

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Section: Deployment Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

HPC Environment Management: New Challenges in the Petaflop Era

Dias

Aveleda

2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…We have configured an experimental grid environment made up of three Rocks [23] clusters (fab4, e-science and powercost ) at three different sites of the University of Sannio. Fig.…”

Section: Computational Experience and Performance Analysis 41 Grid Ementioning

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A grid-aware MIP solver: Implementation and case studies

Mancini¹,

Marcarelli²,

Vasilyev³

et al. 2008

Future Generation Computer Systems

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“…However, they are known to be difficult for administrators to deploy, and end-users to use. GAMA provides a simple mechanism for administrators to deploy the security services in the form of Rocks Rolls (32), and a Web services API for user interfaces (on various platforms) to interact with. Users have the option of retrieving the Grid credentials from the GAMA Web services for use in a standalone mode.…”

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SOAs for Scientific Applications: Experiences and Challenges

Krishnan

Bhatia

2007

Third IEEE International Conference on E-Science and Grid Computing (E-Science 2007)

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Over the past several years, with the advent of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) (19) and the Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) (25), Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web service technologies have been embraced in the field of scientific and Grid computing. These new principles promise to help make scientific infrastructures simpler to use, more cost effective to implement, and easier to maintain. However, understanding how to leverage these developments to actually design and build a system remains more of an art than a science. In this paper, we present some positions learned through experience that provide guidance in leveraging SOA technologies to build scientific infrastructures. In addition, we present the technical challenges that need to be addressed in building an SOA, and as a case study, we present the SOA that we have designed for the National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) (9) community. We discuss how we have addressed these technical challenges, and present the overall architecture, the individual software toolkits developed, the client interfaces, and the usage scenarios. We hope that our experiences prove to be useful in building similar infrastructures for other scientific applications.

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NPACI Rocks: tools and techniques for easily deploying manageable Linux clusters

Cited by 78 publications

References 6 publications

HPC Environment Management: New Challenges in the Petaflop Era

HPC Environment Management: New Challenges in the Petaflop Era

A grid-aware MIP solver: Implementation and case studies

SOAs for Scientific Applications: Experiences and Challenges

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