We use something that was originally home-grown in house but is now open source (https://github.com/hpcsi/losf) after having moved off of Rocks long ago. It's based on Cobbler but has recently be updated to support both CentOS and SUSE. Either way, management of RPMs is at its core. We have had more than 10k nodes under management across a handful of clusters at once with this system.
Best, Bill. -- Bill Barth, Ph.D., Director, HPC [email protected] | Phone: (512) 232-7069 Office: ROC 1.435 | Fax: (512) 475-9445 On 3/15/16, 7:39 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
