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Rocks

Contacts

Rocks is used at CS and CAC.

• 3/13/13: Lulu and Oliver met with CS's Martin Berggren <mjb43>, to discuss Rocks.
• Oliver can make introductions to CAC staff, including Resa Alford <resa.alvord> and Steven Lee, among others.
  • CAC runs Nandini's cluster. Specs to its OS and provisioning software are available here:
    • http://www.cac.cornell.edu/wiki/index.php?title=ASTRA_Cluster

Resources

11/28/12 email to Lulu, from Oliver:

Here's Here’s what appears to be a good overview in setting up an HPC cluster. This is the 2nd of 6 "pages"“pages”, which has a link to Rocks <http://www.rocksclusters.org>, but not Warewulf:

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Michael Hint noted 6/26/14 likely use of OpenStack in engineering for clustersthat is seems likely that someone in the Engineering college uses OpenStack (for clusters?):

• http://www.openstack.org/

Oliver found this article on "wetting up a real-world HPC cluster with Kickstart, SSH, Son of Grid Engine, and other free tools", by a SysAdmin, Gavin W. Burris, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences:

• http://www.admin-magazine.com/HPC/Articles/real_world_hpc_setting_up_an_hpc_cluster
• His blog, <http://idolinux.blogspot.com/> has an HPC in AWS example, but is otherwise dated:
  • http://idolinux.blogspot.com/2012/06/fabcluster-amazon-ec2-script.html

Another resource Oliver found, 11/13/14:

A cluster monitoring tool suite. "Wulfware: A LAN/Cluster/Beowulf Monitoring Suite; Version 2.6.0; Robert G. Brown (rgb).

• This is the official website for the Wulfware suite of LAN or cluster monitoring tools:
  • http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Beowulf/wulfware.php