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Hi Jonathon,

At France Grilles, we are using SlipStream to deploy Torque or Hadoop 
Cluster on our Cloud instances. It is very convenient for users, and can 
also be used as Cloud Broker.

This solution works pretty well. We have launched a 'Cloud Challenge' 
call last year to choose a scientific project that could use all our 
Cloud Computing resources (thousands of VMs spread over 5 datacenters, 
not all are running OpenStack). A project has been selected end of 
December and will start this month. It will use SlipStream to manage the 
VMs. If people are interested, I can give a feedback once the contest is 
over.

Cheers,

Jerome Pansanel

Le 13/01/2015 20:13, Jonathon A Anderson a écrit :
> Hi, everybody!
>
> We at CU-Boulder Research Computing are looking at using OpenStack Ironic
> for our HPC cluster(s). I’ve got a sysadmin background, so my initial goal
> is to simply use OpenStack to deploy our traditional queueing system
> (Slurm), and basically use OpenStack (w/Ironic) as a replacement for
> Cobbler, xcat, perceus, hand-rolled PXE, or whatever else sysadmin-focused
> PXE-based node provisioning solution one might use. That said, once we
> have OpenStack (and have some competency with it), we’d presumably be well
> positioned to offer actual cloud-y virtualization to our users, or even
> offer baremetal instances for direct use for some of our (presumably most
> trusted) users.
>
> But how about the rest of you? Are you using OpenStack in your HPC
> workloads today? Are you doing “traditional” virtualization? Are you using
> the nova-compute baremetal driver? Are you using Ironic? Something even
> more exotic?
>
> And, most importantly, how has it worked for you?
>
> I’ve finally got some nodes to start experimenting with, so I hope to have
> some real hands-on experience with Ironic soon. (So far, I’ve only been
> able to do traditional virtualization on some workstations.)
>
> ~jonathon
>
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