Intel S5000PAL manual OS Provisioning and Cluster Management, Platform OCS 4.1.1-1.1/4.1.1-2.1

How to Build a Cluster - Intel® Server Board S5000PAL

Note: Make sure that the BIOS and Firmware provisioning PXE server is shutdown prior to rebooting the nodes or they will go into a reboot loop and provision the BIOS and Firmware again.

At this point the cluster is ready for Operating System (OS) provisioning. Ensure that the provisioning solution begins here so that the next time the cluster nodes are rebooted they will boot from the OS provisioning server.

OS Provisioning and Cluster Management

The cluster OS provisioning method deployed is up to the user(s). The ESAA solutions below offer several options on OS provisioning with various high speed interconnects.

Platform OCS 4.1.1-1.1/4.1.1-2.1

The Platform Computing OS provisioning solution offers an end to end solution for deploying clusters from a Front End including options for either Intel or SilverStorm high speed interconnect support. The Platform Computing OCS 4.1.1-1.1/4.1.1-2.1 (“High-Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster Installation using Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS)* 4.1 on Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 4.3 - Intel® Server Board S5000PAL” or “Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS)* 4.1.1- 2.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 4.4 - Intel® Server Board S5000PAL”) recipes for this platform can be found on the ESAA website:

http://www.esaa-members.com

Once you have a Linux OS installed, and the IB interconnect has been installed with the SilverStorm RPM, the separate SilverStorm recipe for (High-Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster Installations using SilverStorm* InfiniBand* Interconnect on Linux* - Intel® Server Board S5000PAL) can be used as reference for additional installation and configuration. (http://www.esaa-members.com)

Z RESEARCH GlusterHPC

GlusterHPC automates installation of High Performance Computational Clusters / Supercomputers on commodity Intel platform. It is extensible, portable across various GNU/Linux distributions, scalable to several thousand nodes and has clean easy to use dialog interface. GlusterHPC provides HPC tools and libraries in addition to OS packages and pre-configures them at the time of provisioning. It essentially converts a stand-alone GNU/Linux distribution into a Cluster distribution.

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