Brand New HPC Sysadmin at a Major University, Where to Start?

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xCAT Landing Page

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xCAT

xCAT is an open-source distributed computing management software used for the deployment and administration of Linux or AIX based clusters.

xCAT Provides PXE provisions, DHCP, and DNS all integrated into a single database and system. While more complex than other solutions it is very powerful and you will need a dedicated DNS for HPC eventually anyways.

#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 1 social mentions
Singularity Container Landing Page

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Singularity Container

Singularity is a container solution with a focus on building reproducible software stacks and...

Singularity This is a HPC focused container system that has large industry support. You can use this to package finicky software that only runs on specific linux distributions or only allows for RPM/Deb installations. It is also another mechanism for users to bring their own software and it integrates fairly well with both Slurm and HTCondor.

#Security & Privacy #Software Marketplace #DevOps Tools 4 social mentions
Prometheus Landing Page
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Prometheus

An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Prometheus + Grafana This tool combination is very popular and you decent integration with HPC schedulers such as SLURM.

#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 229 social mentions
Grafana Landing Page
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Grafana

Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
Pricing:
- Open Source
Prometheus + Grafana This tool combination is very popular and you decent integration with HPC schedulers such as SLURM.

#Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 200 social mentions