Management of an academic HPC cluster: The UL experience

Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation, HPCS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 959-967

  Varrette, Sebastien ^a   Bouvry, Pascal ^a   Cartiaux, Hyacinthe ^a   Georgatos, Fotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Capistrano; HPC; Puppet; Xen

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; DATA HANDLING; DIGITAL STORAGE; STORAGE AS A SERVICE (STAAS);

CAPISTRANO; CLUSTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPLEMENTARY SERVICES; COMPLEX COMPUTING SYSTEMS; COMPLEX INFRASTRUCTURES; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC); PUPPET; TRANSMISSION CAPABILITY;

TIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84908637366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCSim.2014.6903792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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