HPC Cluster

An Ansible-powered project that automates the creation of a fully functional HPC cluster — from bare nodes to parallel-ready in minutes.

Requirements

• Proper hostnames and networking in place
• Ansible (controller machine)
• SSH access to all nodes
• Python available on managed hosts

				       USER
				 	     |
				  ┌──────▼──────┐
				  │    MASTER   │
  				  └──────┬──────┘
					     |
			 ┌───────────┼───────────┐
  			 │           │           │
		┌────▼────┐ ┌────▼────┐ ┌────▼────┐
		│ Worker1 │ │ Worker2 │ │ Worker3 │
		└─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘

Offline workers friendly setup

Roles

This project is organized around Ansible roles, each responsible for one concern.

Feature	RedHat	Debian
nginx server	✓	✓
Mirror server	✓	✓
Mirror client	✓	✓
DNS server	✓	✓
DNS client	✓	✓
NFS server	✓	✓
NFS client	✓	✓
Slurmd
Slurmctl
Slurmdb
Kubernetes cluster
Xcat
LDAP server
LDAP client

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