Tru +1 DH 2017-04-24 9:27 GMT+02:00 Tru Huynh <tru at centos.org>: > > HPC covers a lot of grounds, imho (cf beowulf mainling list, from > research group size to national/multi countries setup). > - compute part: building the software (tuned for your cpu/gpu, ie > openblas/atlas VS generic), SCL, Lmod/modules > - easybuild/spark/nix/... > - hardware (IB, dedicated hw such as FPGA, ...), ARM VS x86_64, ... > - management (puppet/ansible/salt/...) > - scaling on 10s on nodes VS 1000 VS more... (network/rack/datacenter > management at scale) > - user management (from plain /etc/{password|shadow} to FreeIPA, or Active > Directory...) > - shared storage, NFSv3/v4, pNFS, proprietary (cf panasas, gpfs,...) > - and managing 100 TB or 100 PB is not the same (cf robinhood.sf.net) > - distributed storage (client/server): tuned for different workload and > requirements (quotas, ACLs, streaming VS IOPS, locking?, cheap?, > expandability) lustre, beegfs, rozofs, moosefs, ..., ceph, glusterfs, > - archiving/long term storage (irods?) > - batch queuing: slurm and friends > - containers (docker, singularity, ...) > - web interfaces for non IT fluent users > - remote visualisation (to avoid moving TB of data) > - UEFI vs plain PXE/legacy booting > - cloud expansion or cloud based for embarrassingly parallel workload ? > - haddoop ? > - what framework? warewulf as in openhpc, xcat, ks (foreman or DYI), ... > > Cheers > > Tru -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20170424/0791832d/attachment-0008.html>