Hi Bruno HPC is interesting to us. For 16.04 LTS one of the goals is diskless MAAS, which is in part driven by a desire to drive large-scale automation in some of the super-computers where Ubuntu is in heavy use already. That would dovetail nicely with your interests, by the look of it, if there were charms of these services.
Mark On 25/08/15 13:39, Bruno Pereira wrote: > Hello all, > > #about the "what services would you like to see juju'ed" question > > I have been working on high performance computing supplying Linux clusters > to research facilities for the last 2,5 years, one of the things that could > make (maas +) juju extremely attractive to such institutions and businesses > would be to see juju charms deploying common HPC cluster services. > > A cluster is in principle very easy to setup and composed by very little > services and required configuration: > > - SSH keys between the nodes distribuited; > - A scheduler for compute jobs (slurm, sge, torque, etc) composed by the > server and client packages, optional: some sort of database for accounting, > authentication service (munge is very common) for security; > - A set of libraries and mpi implementations that the nodes can use to run > compute jobs. > - Power control (already implemented in maas if not mistaken) and > monitoring (nagios or sorts). > > That will be your basic cluster structure and should allow you to run jobs > between nodes. > > HPC is niche that can translate to big business. Seeing Ubuntu direct some > effort to that direction would be, imho, very attractive depending on > Canonical's will. > -- Juju mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju
