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CIQ develops and supports open source software for HPC that simplifies your life as a cluster administrator. I recently had the opportunity to deploy and test this software in a Dell PowerEdge cluster with Cornelis Omni-Path networking, with equipment provided in generous partnership by Dell and Cornelis. Both PowerEdge and Omni-Path are frequently deployed in...
The Warewulf community held its regular bi-weekly meeting on July 5, 2023. In this meeting, we discussed the upcoming v4.4.1 bugfix release, plans for a v4.5 release, new developments for support for secure boot, and the current status of Warewulf joining the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation as an RESF Project. Bugfix release: v4.4.1 A few...
Warewulf is a bare metal, stateless, container-based cluster provisioning solution that builds on a well-established stateless provisioning paradigm and incorporates enterprise-grade containerization workflows to make it easy to manage clustered hardware at scale. Warewulf is among the most successful HPC cluster platforms in the industry with support from OpenHPC, contributors worldwide, and usage from every...
Pulling together proven technology and the latest innovations, CIQ has created a turnkey solution with a traditional high performance computing (HPC) stack that meets the needs of a large variety of users. Easy to deploy, highly scalable, and very flexible, this infrastructure substrate provides a stable, secure, and supported foundation, empowering users to build the...
Please note that this will work on 4.4, currently in release candidate status. Warewulf 4 introduced compatibility with the OCI container ecosystem, which greatly streamlines the process of defining, importing, and maintaining compute node images compared to other systems--even compared to Warewulf 3! But one aspect of compute node images remains unchanged: they can quickly...
When deploying Warewulf 4, we often encounter expectations that Warewulf should support stateful provisioning. Typically these expectations are born from experience with another system (such as Foreman, XCAT, or even Warewulf 3) that supported writing a provisioned operating system to the local disk of each compute node. Warewulf 4 intentionally omits this kind of stateful...
The modern high performance computing cluster is a conglomeration of hardware and software components integrated to act like a single machine. With literally thousands of components that can all march at different speeds, the probability of integration problems quickly approaches 100%. Cluster building was a dark art gathering of all the components, grabbing available software...