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DOI 10.2172/799076
Title A General Purpose High Performance Linux Installation Infrastructure
Creator/Author Wachsmann, Alf
Publication Date2002 Jun 17
OSTI IdentifierOSTI ID: 799076
Report Number(s)SLAC-PUB-9193
DOE Contract NumberAC03-76SF00515
DOI10.2172/799076
Other Number(s)TRN: US200221%%88
Resource TypeTechnical Report
Resource RelationOther Information: PBD: 17 Jun 2002
CoverageTopical
Research OrgStanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Sponsoring OrgUSDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
Subject99 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 PublicationUnited States
LanguageEnglish
FormatSize: vp.
System Entry Date2007 Apr 16
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