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Software Scalability Issues in Large Clusters

A. Chan·R. Hogue·C. Hollowell·O. Rind·T. Throwe·T. Wlodek
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The rapid development of large clusters built with commodity hardware has highlighted scalability issues with deploying and effectively running system software in large clusters. We describe here our experiences with monitoring, image distribution, batch and other system administration software tools within the 1000+ node Linux cluster currently in production at the RHIC Computing Facility.

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A. Chan, R. Hogue, C. Hollowell, O. Rind, T. Throwe, T. Wlodek. 2003-05-05. Software Scalability Issues in Large Clusters. https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0305005

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