Lionel SPINELLI <[email protected]> writes: > Hello all, > > I have a question that is not directly linked to SGE but relates to > the same. Which tool administrators that have to install, manage, > configure and ensure coherence between lot of grid nodes use? I mean, > if I have 10 nodes in my grid and need to be sure that all of them > have the right software/configuration, I don't want to manually > configure each machine.
It seems to be a religious topic... My requirements for managing node images are: 1. free software 2. stateless image (NFS root + local /tmp; modify the shared root more-or-less directly) 3. support for heterogeneous systems with different images for multiple OSes and customizing for different node groups with a single image 4. decoupled from the OS (not living somewhat in its own world, like Rocks) so you do normal package management When I had to pick one swiftly, the only one it was clear would do 3. properly was oneSIS <http://www.onesis.org>, though probably others can. I've run a 250-node horrible mess of hardware as a shared everything cluster with oneSIS off a single NFS server. I recently replaced a vendor's useless imaging scheme with it for the second time. > Do you know a simple tool that could do the job? My researches lead me > to "Puppet Master" but I would like to get advises from experts... I'm not convinced that's appropriate for an HPC cluster, but people with more HPC experience disagree. You need tools apart from image management, of course. -- Community Grid Engine: http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
