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Running clusters on a Shoestring

Running clusters on a Shoestring. Fermilab SC 2007. Poor man’s cluster tool-kit. PXE boot – cluster installation rgang – run commands on worker nodes IPMI – Intelligent Platform Management. installation PXE boot.

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Running clusters on a Shoestring

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  1. Running clusters on a Shoestring Fermilab SC 2007

  2. Poor man’s cluster tool-kit • PXE boot – cluster installation • rgang– run commands on worker nodes • IPMI – Intelligent Platform Management

  3. installation PXE boot • PXE booting is a way to boot a computer entirely from the network without any form of storage on the destination computer (RAM aside). • PXE booting allows us to mass install an OS on the worker nodes. The worker node OS images are stored on the local hard disk on a BOOTP-TFTP server.

  4. installation PXE boot BOOTP-TFTP Request Response tomsrtbt and kernel Response root image boot image clusterInstallScript partitions local disk, remote copies images and unzips them into disk partitions, configures network and reboots the node. DOS image bootp-tftp server Ittakes 14 minutes to install 80 Opteron 270 nodes, using an Intel Xeon BOOTP-TFTP server, over a 100Mbps network.

  5. deployment rgang • rgang allows one to execute commands on or distribute files to many nodes. • rgang forks separate rsh or ssh children, which execute in parallel. After successfully waiting on returns from each child or after timing out, rgang displays the sorted node responses. • To scale to kilo clusters, rgang can utilize a tree-structure, via a nway switch. When so invoked, rgang uses rsh or ssh to spawn copies of itself on multiple nodes. These copies in turn spawn additional copies.

  6. deployment rgang nway = 2 1GB file head-node rgang took 350 seconds to transfer a 1GB file from the head-node to 600 nodes using nway=2 option over 100Mbps network which is 13Gbps of transfer rate for the entire cluster

  7. management IPMI • IPMI is an open standard for monitoring, logging, recovery, inventory, and control of hardware that is implemented independent of the main CPU, BIOS, and OS. • The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) is the brain behind platform management and its primary purpose is to handle the autonomous sensor monitoring and event logging features. • ipmitool provides a simple command-line in-band and out-of-band interface to the BMC.

  8. management IPMI Out-of-band Server Management In-band Server Management Power cycle/on/off CPU temperature System temperature CPU/Chassis Fan speed Sensor Event Logs BMC Ethernet Local interface SSIF, KCS, SMBus OS not loaded, OS booting, OS unresponsive OS Running We power on, off or reset a thousand+ worker nodes in seconds.

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