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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Any number of approaches will work. When I used to do this years ago (I've long since passed on the technical side) I'd PXE boot, partition the hard disk and
set up a provisioning network and base OS install using the Debian FAI (Fully Automated Install) system, and then use cfengine to configure the machine once it had come in that minimal state. This approach was used across the board for all of our Linux boxes,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">These days the team uses tools like cobbler and ansible to achieve the same thing. There are lots of ways to do it, but the principle is the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 28/09/2016, 15:34, "Beowulf on behalf of Mikhail Kuzminsky" <<a href="mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org">beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org</a> on behalf of
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I worked always w/very small HPC clusters and built them manually (each server).
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But what is reasonable to do for clusters containing some tens or hundred of nodes ?<br>
Of course w/modern Xeon (or Xeon Phi KNL) and IB EDR, during the next year for example.
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There are some automatic systems like OSCAR or even ROCKS. <br>
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But it looks that ROCKS don't support modern interconnects, and there may be problems
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w/OSCAR versions for support of systemd-based distributives like CentOS 7. For next year -<br>
is it reasonable to wait new OSCAR version or something else ?<br>
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Mikhail Kuzminsky,<br>
Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS,<br>
Moscow <br>
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