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DOI | 10.2172/799076 |
Title | A General Purpose High Performance Linux Installation Infrastructure |
Creator/Author | Wachsmann, Alf |
Publication Date | 2002 Jun 17 |
OSTI Identifier | OSTI ID: 799076 |
Report Number(s) | SLAC-PUB-9193 |
DOE Contract Number | AC03-76SF00515 |
DOI | 10.2172/799076 |
Other Number(s) | TRN: US200221%%88 |
Resource Type | Technical Report |
Resource Relation | Other Information: PBD: 17 Jun 2002 |
Coverage | Topical |
Research Org | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US) |
Sponsoring Org | USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US) |
Subject | 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; PERFORMANCE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; EXECUTIVE CODES; INSTALLATION; STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER |
Description/Abstract | With more and more and larger and larger Linux clusters, the question arises how to install them. This paper addresses this question by proposing a solution using only standard software components. This installation infrastructure scales well for a large number of nodes. It is also usable for installing desktop machines or diskless Linux clients, thus, is not designed for cluster installations in particular but is, nevertheless, highly performant. The infrastructure proposed uses PXE as the network boot component on the nodes. It uses DHCP and TFTP servers to get IP addresses and a bootloader to all nodes. It then uses kickstart to install Red Hat Linux over NFS. We have implemented this installation infrastructure at SLAC with our given server hardware and installed a 256 node cluster in 30 minutes. This paper presents the measurements from this installation and discusses the bottlenecks in our installation. |
Country of Publication | United States |
Language | English |
Format | Size: vp. |
System Entry Date | 2007 Apr 16 |
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