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<p>I never used Bright. Touched it and talked to a salesperson at a
conference but I wasn't impressed.<br>
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<p>Unpopular opinion: I don't see a point in using "cluster
managers" unless you have a very tiny cluster and zero Linux
experience. These are just Linux boxes with a couple applications
(e.g. Slurm) running on them. Nothing special.
xcat/Warewulf/Scyld/Rocks just get in the way more than they help
IMO. They are mostly crappy wrappers around free software (e.g.
ISC's dhcpd) anyway. When they aren't it's proprietary trash.<br>
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<p>I install CentOS nodes and use
Salt/Chef/Puppet/Ansible/WhoCares/Whatever to plop down my configs
and software. This also means I'm not suck with "node images" and
can instead build everything as plain old text files (read: write
SaltStack states), update them at will, and push changes any
time. My "base image" is CentOS and I need no "baby's first
cluster" HPC software to install/PXEboot it. YMMV<br>
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Jeff White<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/01/2018 01:57 PM, Robert Taylor
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Beowulfers.
<div>Does anyone have any experience with Bright Cluster
Manager?</div>
<div>My boss has been looking into it, so I wanted to tap into
the collective HPC consciousness and see</div>
<div>what people think about it. </div>
<div>It appears to do node management, monitoring, and
provisioning, so we would still need a job scheduler like lsf,
slurm,etc, as well. Is that correct?</div>
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<div>If you have experience with Bright, let me know. Feel free
to contact me off list or on.</div>
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