NYLUG_2008_04_30_General_Meeting The New York Linux Users Group audio opensource_audio There are now many options for creating Linux clusters; clustering remains one of the hottest applications for Linux today. Along with an overview of the popular clustering software, we will focus on the Rocks package sponsored by the National Science Foundation, from basic installation to running jobs. Robert Rusinko will be show us the ins and outs of setting up clusters using Rocks, and give us a peek at the Rocks 5.0 (Beta) using Xen. If you've ever had to take a pile of computers and turn them into working systems, you already know how much work there is from unpacking them to putting them into production. Various tools have been created to automate portions of the process, such as Kickstart, but still leave a lot of work to the person installing the systems. Cobbler aims to make this process easier and less error-prone by providing a PXE boot server and tools such as Koan, to allow you a template-based system to provision new systems, whether physical or virtual. Subhendu Ghosh will take us on a walkthrough of Cobbler so you can see how easy it can be. 2008-04-30 18:30:00 2008 NYLUG; Linux; Free Software; FOSS; FLOSS; computers; techonology; community projects; Open Source; Robert Rusinko; Subhendu Ghosh; Rocks; Cobbler; clusters; Xen; provisioning; cluster computing; kickstart; koan; Beowulf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ 2008-05-05 04:27:55 2008-05-05 04:27:13 archivist@nylug.org NYLUG Archivist 2008-05-05 04:38:13 Ron Guerin 74:44 2008-05-05 06:35:20 NYLUG Archivist