[Beowulf] Replacement for C3 suite from ORNL

[Fabricio Cannini]

On 01-03-2015 19:43, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> On 28/02/15 09:34, Fabricio Cannini wrote:
>
>> Does anybody know of a replacement for the C3 suite of commands ( cpower
>> ...) that is very common in SGI machines and used to be available here:
>
> That link seems to work for me, were you having problems getting to it?


Yes, here from .br all I have is a blank page when accessing the url.
Maybe a route problem ?


> We use xCAT for our HPC systems, and we run that on SGI (their rebadged
> SuperMicro gear) as well as IBM systems.
>
> Provides rpower, reventlog, rinv, rsetboot, etc, as well as xdsh, xdcp
> and the like.
>
> http://xcat.sourceforge.net/


xcat seems overkill because of its deployment capabilities, but it may 
fit the bill better than the others.


> Just note that the latest release has dropped support for RHEL/CentOS 5.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_2.9_Release_Notes/

I'm dying to leave the 6.x series, so this shouldn't be a problem. ;)

Thanks!