Resource Management for High_performance PC Clusters

With the recent availability of cost-e ective network cards for the PCI bus, researchers have been tempted to build up large compute clusters with standard PCs. Many of them are operated with workstation cluster management software in high-throughput or single user mode. For very large clusters with more than 100 PEs, however, it becomes necessary to implement a full edged resource management software that allows to partition the system for multi-user access. In this paper, we present our Computing Center Software (CCS), which was originally designed for managing massively parallel high-performance computers, and now adapted to modern workstation clusters. It provides { partitioning of exclusive and non-exclusive resources, { hardware-independent scheduling of interactive and batch jobs, { open, extensible interfaces to other resource management systems, { a high degree of reliability.