+1 for xcat. We use xCAT to manage 3k+ nodes and while it can be a little complex it works very well. I've used xcat on 3 different systems now and I quite like it.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 15, 2016, at 8:39 AM, Bjørn-Helge Mevik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I apologize for the slightly off-topic subject, but I could not think of > a better forum to ask. If you know of a more proper place to ask this, > I'd be happy to know about it. > > We are currently in the design fase for a new cluster that is going to > be set up next year. We have so far used Rocks (on top of CentOS) for > cluster provisioning. However, Rocks don't support CentOS >= 7, and it > doesn't look like it will in the near future. Also for other reasons, > we are looking for alternatives to Rocks. > > So, what are you using for cluster provisioning? > > - Rocks? > - A different provisioning tool? > - A locally developed solution? > > -- > Regards, > Bjørn-Helge Mevik, dr. scient, > Department for Research Computing, University of Oslo
