OpenMosix approach to build scalable HPC farms with an easy management infrastructure

TL;DR

This paper discusses using OpenMosix to create scalable, easy-to-manage HPC farms with diskless nodes, demonstrating its effectiveness in boosting performance through load balancing and process migration.

Contribution

It presents a comprehensive approach to building and managing HPC clusters with OpenMosix, emphasizing ease of management and performance improvements.

Findings

OpenMosix enables scalable HPC farm construction.

Diskless nodes simplify management and deployment.

Load balancing improves system performance.

Abstract

The OpenMosix approach is a good solution to build powerful and scalable computing farms. Furthermore an easy management infrastructure is implemented using diskless nodes and network boot procedures. In HENP environment, the choice of OpenMosix has been proven to be an optimal solution to give a general performance boost on implemented systems thanks to its load balancing and process migration features. In this poster we give an overview of the activities, carried out by our computing center, concerning the installation, management, monitoring, and usage of HPC Linux clusters running OpenMosix.