Stateless Clustering Using OSCAR and PERCEUS

Author

Kulkarni, Abhishek ; Lumsdaine, Andrew

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN

fYear

2008

fDate

9-11 June 2008

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

32

Abstract

OSCAR has matured over the years into a very capable, yet simple high-performance clustering platform solution. Ease of building and administrating a cluster, effective resource management and scalable performance are some of the issues which have gathered a lot of focus in the HPC domain lately. This technical paper describes the integration of OSCAR and PERCEUS, which aims to enable the deployment of stateless nodes in a cluster. This promises to fill a much needed niche in performing a diskless cluster installation with OSCAR. The single point of administration and ease-of-use would help novice users as well as experienced cluster administrators to deploy clusters faster.

Keywords

resource allocation; workstation clusters; OSCAR toolkit; PERCEUS toolkit; diskless cluster installation; high-performance clustering; resource management; stateless clustering; Application software; Buildings; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Computer science; Energy consumption; Hardware; High performance computing; Open systems; Resource management; HPC; OSCAR; PS3; Perceus; cluster; diskless; stateless;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, 2008. HPCS 2008. 22nd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Quebec City, Que.

ISSN

1550-5243

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3250-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPCS.2008.12

Filename

4556069