[Beowulf] Most common cluster management software, job schedulers, etc?

[Adam DeConinck]

Hi Jeff,

There's a survey on small HPC center management every year, as well as a
BoF at Supercomputing. It might be worth checking out the yearly survey
results at https://sites.google.com/site/smallhpc/

Cheers,
Adam


On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Jeff Friedman <
jeff.friedman at siliconmechanics.com> wrote:

> Hello all. I am just entering the HPC Sales Engineering role, and would
> like to focus my learning on the most relevant stuff. I have searched near
> and far for a current survey of some sort listing the top used “stacks”,
> but cannot seem to find one that is free. I was breaking things down
> similar to this:
>
> *OS disto*:  CentOS, Debian, TOSS, etc?  I know some come trimmed down,
> and also include specific HPC libraries, like CNL, CNK, INK?
>
> *MPI options*: MPICH2, MVAPICH2, Open MPI, Intel MPI, ?
>
> *Provisioning software*: Cobbler, Warewulf, xCAT, Openstack, Platform
> HPC, ?
>
> *Configuration management*: Warewulf, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, ?
>
> *Resource and job schedulers*: I think these are basically the same
> thing? Torque, Lava, Maui, Moab, SLURM, Grid Engine, Son of Grid Engine,
> Univa, Platform LSF, etc… others?
>
> *Shared filesystems*: NFS, pNFS, Lustre, GPFS, PVFS2, GlusterFS, ?
>
> *Library management*: Lmod, ?
>
> *Performance monitoring*: Ganglia, Nagios, ?
>
> *Cluster management toolkits*: I believe these perform many of the
> functions above, all wrapped up in one tool?  Rocks, Oscar, Scyld, Bright, ?
>
>
> Does anyone have any observations as to which of the above are the most
> common?  Or is that too broad?  I  believe most the clusters I will be
> involved with will be in the 128 - 2000 core range, all on commodity
> hardware.
>
> Thank you!
>
> - Jeff
>
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