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Getting started with OpenStack Nova

by on 04. Mar, 2011 in Distributed, SysAdmin

Here’s some quick steps to get a functioning nova dev install running on a single machine. I am using Ubuntu 10.10 and the instructions should be applicable to Ubuntu 10.04 as well. For the purposes of following through the steps a VM would suffice, but would be nice to have a devoted machine.

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Moab Workload Manager CLI Commands

by on 16. Apr, 2010 in Distributed, SysAdmin

Here’s a list of handy commands for dealing with Moab. I’m going to keep it short and focus on commands to solve specific use cases. [...]

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Moab HPC Suite

Review of Moab HPC Suite

by on 08. Apr, 2010 in Distributed, SysAdmin, Tech Talk

I’ve been using Moab HPC suite for more than a year now and have finally got some time to write up a complete in-depth review of all the features. Hopefully this is helpful for those looking at incorporating Moab in your environment. Moab Adaptive HPC Suite is a complete solution to manage a HPC environment [...]

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Sun/Oracle Grid Engine 6.2 installation on Windows

by on 22. Mar, 2010 in Distributed, How-Tos, SysAdmin

Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 2 introduced the support for Windows Operating systems to run as worker nodes. Sun or Oracle Grid Engine as it’s being relabeled now is a distributed resource manager primarily used in HPC environment, but there’s more widespread use now with all the new features introduced as part of Update 5.

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ClusterSSH

ClusterSSH

by on 23. Dec, 2008 in SysAdmin

Every sysadmin maintaining more than a couple of systems would have always had to log onto multiple systems to perform some daily tasks. In most HPC environments where 100′s or 1000′s of machines are part of every cluster, there are various tools to help do just that. But on a smaller scale where you would [...]

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Sun Blackbox

by on 26. Apr, 2007 in SysAdmin, Tech stuff

I’m not sure how many of you’ll are interested in data centers and rack computers. But this is definitely worth checking out. Sun has come up with this innovate data center in a container project called BlackBox which fits in a complete data center in one trailer container.

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