<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 22 Mar 2016, at 15:32, Olli-Pekka Lehto <<a href="mailto:Olli-Pekka.Lehto@csc.fi" class="">Olli-Pekka.Lehto@csc.fi</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div class="">Hi,</div><div class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class="">I finally got around to writing down my cluster-consistency checklist that I've been planning for a long time: </div><div class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/oplehto/cluster-checks/" class="">https://github.com/oplehto/cluster-checks/</a> <div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">The goal is to try to make the baseline installation of a cluster as consistent as possible and make vendors work for their money. :) Of course hopefully publishing this will help vendors capture some of the issues that slip through the cracks even before clusters are handed over. It's also a good idea to run these types of checks during the lifetime of the system as there's always some consistency creep as hardware gets replaced. </div><div class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class="">If someone is interested in contributing, pull requests or comments on the list are welcome. I'm sure that there's something missing as well. Right now it's just a text-file but making some nicer scripts and postprocessing for the output might happen as well at some point. All the examples are very HP oriented as well at this point.</div><div class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Olli-Pekka</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Olli,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Have you looked at <a href="https://clusterready.intel.com/intel-cluster-checker-version-3/" class="">Intel Cluster Checker</a>? It seems to be trying to do a lot of what you are also aiming at.</div><div>It doesn’t seem to be free (though it is bundled with some of the Parallel Studio products). </div><div>I’d have hoped that there’d be a version at OpenHPC, but I couldn’t see one.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>(Full Dicslosure: As you know, I work for Intel, though not on Cluster Checker…)</div><br class=""><div class="">
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