Rocks <http://www.rocksclusters.org> is used by CAC and Cornell’s Computer Sciences dept (with CU AD). We instead use warewulf, with torque and maui.
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:
Resources
11/28/12 email to Lulu, from Oliver:
Here’s what appears to be a good overview in setting up an HPC cluster. This is the 2nd of 6 “pages”, which has a link to Rocks <http://www.rocksclusters.org>, but not Warewulf:
HPC ToolboxHPC Toolbox; Dominic Eschweiler
4/25/14 email to Lulu, from Oliver:
I parked Martin's info below (in his use of SSSD, though he doesn't mention it specifically) at our ever-growing wiki page about Linux and CU AD:
https://confluence.cornell.edu/x/PQdIDg
As you know, he uses Puppet. And his clusters are Rocks; as I shared with you, each of his compute nodes authenticates (and authorizes?) against CU AD. And although the CIT project is in a "pilot", he is using their service in full-bore production mode for all his systems. :-)
Warewulf is what ChemIT uses
These articles on about using Warewulf <http://warewulf.lbl.gov/trac>, as emailed to Lulu, from Oliver, 11/28/12:
Warewulf Cluster Manager – Howlingly Great; By Jeff Layton
Warewulf Cluster Manager – Part 2; By Jeff Layton
Warewulf Cluster Manager – Part 3; By Jeff Layton
Warewulf Cluster Manager – Part 4; By Jeff Layton
Other ideas
Michael Hint noted 6/26/14 that is seems likely that someone in the Engineering college uses OpenStack (for clusters?):
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: