Diskless Image Management (DIM) for Cluster Administration

Thumbnail Image

Files

DIM tech rpt.pdf (1.17 MB)
Can’t use the file because of accessibility barriers? Contact us with the title of the item, permanent link, and specifics of your accommodation need.

Date

2006-09

Authors

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

IBM, Inc. and Indiana University

Permanent Link

https://hdl.handle.net/2022/424

Abstract

Large computing systems have large administration needs. But just as technologies have evolved to take advantage of certain parallelisms of large scale computing, administrating these technologies must evolve to take advantage of the associated operational efficiencies. Using a straightforward push technology, and scalable to thousands of blades, Diskless Image Management (DIM) allows system administrators to boot, patch, or modify one, several or all distributed images in minutes from a single management console. DIM was prototyped on the MareNostrum cluster with 2406 blades, but is scalable to 7000 blades. Using IBM JS20 blade technology MareNostrum consists of 172 BladeCenters.

Description

Keywords

technology, Image Management, Clusters, Cluster Administration

Citation

Journal

DOI

Link(s) to data and video for this item

Relation

Rights

Type

Technical Report

Collections

Technical reports (not peer-reviewed)