Hi On 16 September 2015 at 16:20, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > There's starting to be some initial work in > > > https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/f125ea34-9817-4715-b879-e26e0c7fcb7c/files/public/ > > Who on the list of people below has experience with managing a > nontrivial hardware cluster and wants to share how they do it? Jan > Groenewald, maybe you can say more? > We're getting quite comfortable on Ubuntu or Debian running LXC containers. We're in progress of replacing backup scripts with backuppc, and we're interested to move to ansible (or another) as soon as we have time. If everyone else here is more of a mathematician / programmer than sysadm, then yes, 13 years ago I moved from math to sysadm, and that is our focus. I must confess our availability is not good at all, and a main goal for us would be to move buildslaves and PPA autobuild LXC containers (and their backups) from our Hetzner.de to some of these machines, to free up CPU for our institution. Our total hardware is less than you are talking about here. We'd be more than happy to continue to maintain and to document those, and over time might become more available for other tasks, and we're certainly interested in following. It would be a doable task to make available containers for anyone who wanted to maintain a container buildslave for any other Linux distro. Perhaps one host could be dedicated for that? We'd also be very interested in learning from any implemented cluster architecture, configuration management, and have some very minimal use of ansible. Regards, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
