Base operating system provisioning and bringup for a commercial supercomputer

Proceedings - 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2007; Abstracts and CD-ROM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Daly, David ^a   Jong, Hyuk Choi ^a   Moreira, José E ^a   Waterland, Amos ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; SERVERS;

BASE OPERATING SYSTEMS; BLADECENTERS; COMMERCIAL SCALE OUT PROTOTYPE CLUSTERS; MANAGEMENT FACILITATION FEATURES; MANAGEMENT TOOLS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 34548733822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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