Scalable Deployment And Configuration Of High-Performance Virtual Clusters
Kyrre Begnum, Matthew Disney · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2008
Virtualization and high performance computing have been discussed from a performance perspective in recent publications. We present and discuss a flexible and efficient approach to the management of virtual clusters. A virtual machine management tool is extended to function as a fabric for cluster deployment and management. We show how features such as saving the state of a running cluster can be used to avoid disruption. We also compare our approach to the traditional methods of cluster deployment and present benchmarks which illustrate the efficiency of our approach.