January 2010
An API for easy Linux virtualization
The libvirt library is a Linux API over the virtualization capabilities of Linux that supports a variety of hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, as well as QEMU and some virtualization products for other operating systems. This article explores libvirt, its use, and its architecture.
March 2009
Linux High-performance computing off the shelf
The year 2008 will forever be remembered as the year of the off-the-shelf (OTS) supercomputer, thanks to the Los Alamos National Labs (LANL) and IBM team that constructed the world's first machine (Roadrunner) to break the peta-FLOP (1,000,000,000,000,000 floating-point operations per second) barrier. Get an overview of OTS strategies to architect high-performance computing (HPC) systems as well as the methods and concepts behind building HPC systems from OTS components and open source software.
Linux high-performance cluster monitoring with Ganglia
This article will walk you through Installing and configuring the basic Ganglia (a scalable, distributed monitoring system for high-performance clusters) setup. It will also show you how to use the Python modules to extend functionality with IPMI, and how to use Ganglia host spoofing to monitor IPMI. The goal is not only to set up a Ganglia high-performance Linux cluster monitoring system, but also to add more monitoring capability by writing simple Ganglia plug-ins.
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