St. John, J., & Hacker, T. J. (2012, June), Developing Virtual Clusters for High Performance Computing Using OpenNebula  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21197

\bibitem{asee_peer_21197}
  St. John, J., \& Hacker, T. J. (2012, June), \emph{Developing Virtual Clusters for High Performance Computing Using OpenNebula}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21197

Jason St. John and Thomas J. Hacker.  "Developing Virtual Clusters for High Performance Computing Using OpenNebula".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21197 Internet.  23 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_21197}
  Jason St. John and Thomas J. Hacker.
  "Developing Virtual Clusters for High Performance Computing Using OpenNebula".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21197 Internet.  23 Apr, 2024

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AB  -       Developing Virtual Clusters for High Performance Computing using                                 OpenNebulaHigh performance computing cluster kits such as Rocks and OSCAR were developed to simplifythe process of installing, configuring, and managing commodity-based clusters. The recentemergence of virtualization technologies and IaaS cloud computing systems, such asOpenNebula and NIMBUS, have now greatly simplified the process of creating, deploying, andmanaging dozens to hundreds of virtual machine images running on a collection of physicalservers. Cluster kits available today, however, have not been updated to include virtualization asan integral component of the cluster deployment process. The technology gap between existingcluster kits and virtualization technologies motivates the development of a new approach that canleverage the advantages of virtualization for high performance computing.We are using the KVM virtualization system with OpenNebula to create virtual highperformance computing systems for a graduate course in high performance computing systems.In this paper, we describe our experiences in investigating alternatives to the OSCAR and Rockscluster kits to develop a virtual high performance computing clustering environment built onKVM and OpenNebula. We describe a progressive set of assignments developed for the coursethat leads to a virtual cluster system designed and implemented by each student. We believe ourexperiences and results will be useful for other educators seeking to efficiently use limitedphysical hardware resources to develop an effective course in high performance computingsystems.
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