NPACI rocks: Tools and techniques for easily deploying manageable linux clusters

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 15, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 707-725

  Papadopoulos, Philip M ^a   Katz, Mason J ^a   Bruno, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beowulf; Cluster management; Clusters; Kickstart; Scalable installation

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HEALTH;

CLUSTERED COMPUTING;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038663041     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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