Cluster Research

Overview

The Cluster Research Lab performs fundamental research and development in operating systems and clusters. Our goal is to drastically improve the way clusters are built, managed, and used.

Objective

Our approach is to subtract rather than add to existing software and to replace artifacts from desktop computing.

Research and Development Areas

We call our new cluster architecture a Science Appliance. Our software suite is called Clustermatic. Science Appliance tools enable.

• node boot in under 10 seconds (LinuxBIOS)
• cluster boot and upgrade in under 2 minutes (LinuxBIOS, BProc)
• manageble nodes from power-on (LinuxBIOS, BProc)
• single system image of the entire cluster (BProc)
• fast process migration (BProc)
• fast cluster monitoring (Supermon)

In the News

ASCI Lightning to will run Clustermatic software.

The Cluster Research takes delivery of Pink, a 1024-node (2048 processor) LinuxBIOS/BProc Cluster for systems research.

Team Leader: Ron Minnich, rminnich@lanl.gov, (505) 667-7239 Home Page: http://public.lanl.gov/cluster/