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At MIT there are a few people working on a cluster designed to allow users to process data with software running on custom virtual machine images instead of directly installing the software on the nodes like a typical cluster.  This is geared toward a flexible computing model via virtualization and the technology being used is called [OpenStack | https://www.openstack.org].  I've installed GlueX software on a VM and deployed it on this cluster which has shown good results thus far (<5% different from running on "bare metal").
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At MIT there are a few people working on a cluster designed to allow users to process data with software running on custom virtual machine images instead of directly installing the software on the nodes like a typical cluster.  This is geared toward a flexible computing model via virtualization and the technology being used is called [https://www.openstack.org Openstack].  I've installed GlueX software on a VM and deployed it on this cluster which has shown good results thus far (<5% different from running on "bare metal").
  
 
== Reuse cluster (current) specs ==
 
== Reuse cluster (current) specs ==
 
* 22 Dell blades with 8 cores, 16 GB RAM, 100 GB disk   
 
* 22 Dell blades with 8 cores, 16 GB RAM, 100 GB disk   
 
* Almost all hardware is recycled from other clusters through MIT's "reuse" program
 
* Almost all hardware is recycled from other clusters through MIT's "reuse" program

Revision as of 07:55, 6 February 2014

At MIT there are a few people working on a cluster designed to allow users to process data with software running on custom virtual machine images instead of directly installing the software on the nodes like a typical cluster. This is geared toward a flexible computing model via virtualization and the technology being used is called Openstack. I've installed GlueX software on a VM and deployed it on this cluster which has shown good results thus far (<5% different from running on "bare metal").

Reuse cluster (current) specs

  • 22 Dell blades with 8 cores, 16 GB RAM, 100 GB disk
  • Almost all hardware is recycled from other clusters through MIT's "reuse" program