Sysadmin is happy when users use SLURM
I recently rolled out a new distributed model for our research computing cluster at work. We’re using GlusterFS for networked home directories and SLURM for job/resource scheduling. GlusterFS allows us...
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I recently rolled out a new distributed model for our research computing cluster at work. We’re using GlusterFS for networked home directories and SLURM for job/resource scheduling. GlusterFS allows us...
View ArticleUpdate GlusterFS 3.3.1 -> 3.4.0 on CentOS 6.4 cluster
Notes from the GlusterFS 3.3.1 -> 3.4.0 upgrade on my storage / compute cluster at ILRI, Kenya. I referenced Vijay Bellur’s blog post about upgrading to 3.4, then added my own bits using Ansible for...
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Parallelizing rsync
Last week I had a massive hardware failure on one of the GlusterFS storage nodes in the ILRI, Kenya Research Computing cluster; two drives failed simultaneously on the underlying RAID5. As RAID5 can...
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