servers/databases

01/20/2005, 7:00pm, EST

Thursday, January 20th

GeoCenter deploys 100 node Xserve G5 cluster

GeoCenter has deployed a new 100 node Xserve G5 cluster that will be used for running distributed processing applications from GeoCenter's SeisUP seismic processing system.

GeoCenter published information describing the tools and techniques used to setup and manage the cluster, including Radmind for managing system images, Apple's Server Assistant for auto-configuring each node, and a number of custom Perl scripts written by GeoCenter developer Michael Beam. GeoCenter also discusses the differences between Mac OS X and other Unix platforms that were encountered while porting to Mac OS X. "The techniques we developed allowed us to reduce the deployment process to a short process of booting each system from an external hard disk, which then imaged and auto-configured the system."


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