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Methods For Creating XSEDE Compatible Clusters

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The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment has created a suite of software that is collectively known as the basic XSEDE-compatible cluster build. It has been distributed as a Rocks roll for some time. It is now available as individual RPM packages, so that it can be downloaded and installed in portions as appropriate on existing and working clusters. In this paper, we explain the concept of the XSEDE-compatible cluster and explain how to install individual components as RPMs through use of Puppet and the XSEDE compatible cluster YUM repository.

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          XSEDE '14: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
          July 2014
          445 pages
          ISBN:9781450328937
          DOI:10.1145/2616498
          • General Chair:
          • Scott Lathrop,
          • Program Chair:
          • Jay Alameda

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          • Online: 13 July 2014

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