C2 Fall 2020 Möbius Partners Success Story: Improving Cluster Management and System Updates by Kevin D. Hall September 22, 2020 written by Kevin D. Hall September 22, 2020 196 Recently Möbius Partners worked with a client who lacked high-performance computing (HPC) cluster manageability tools that resulted in non-standardized operating systems and patching inconsistencies. This customer entrusted our team to provide a solution that would be “easy to use and manage” by their own staff. To overcome these challenges, our team first redeployed HPC with HPE Cluster Management Utility (CMU), which enabled the client to manage multiple images and cluster resources with a standard operating system. We then used the Adaptive Computing HPC Suite to deliver the clustered resources our client needed to run complex chemistry computation on Gaussian, an application that provides state-of-art capabilities for electronic structure modeling. The solution helped manage the intensive computations consuming the HPE BladeSystem enclosures enabling software to improve delivery of expedited results. We were successful, but there was still work to be done. Our client faced an additional challenge with efficiently managing users and groups in the cluster that required SSH Keys. We solved this issue by developing a custom solution that delivered a user-friendly process for giving additional users access to the client’s systems. Ultimately, the HPE CMU solution our team put in place delivered significant value by standardizing and modernizing the compute node OS, and enabling our client’s IT Administrators to deliver updated and new software packages to its HPC Suite consumers. In addition, the Möbius Partners team enabled manageability, and consumption across multiple departments, and now their patching and updating tasks of the client’s servers are easy to accomplish. Challenges: No cluster manageability tools Non-standardized OS Patching inconsistencies Solutions: HPE Cluster Management Utility Adaptive Computing HPC Suite Custom, Möbius Partners-designed solution Benefits: Standardized and modernized compute node OS Improved manageability and consumption User-friendly process for adding users Easier and faster patching and updating Connect ConvergeConnect WorldwideHigh Performance ComputingHPE BladeSystemHPE Cluster Management UtilityHPE user communityKevin D. HallMobius Partners 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail Kevin D. Hall Director of Services Delivery Kevin joined Möbius Partners in 2018. He manages our team of delivery resources, including project managers, systems analysts and senior solution architects/engineers, as well as an extensive ecosystem of partners that provides our customers with an extensive services portfolio allowing Möbius Partners to meet more of our customers’ needs. Through his leadership, the company’s services portfolio has grown to further support Möbius Partners’ expansive solution offering in the Infrastructure space, while improving both effectiveness in efficiently delivering projects and overall customer satisfaction with the value-add solutions. Prior to joining Möbius Partners, he spent 20 years as a senior manager at several Houston based companies rolling out operational efficiencies and solution delivery methodologies enabling these organizations to deliver solutions effectively and support them efficiently. previous post Lisa Partridge of XYPRO Technology Corporation: How We Plan To Rebuild In The Post COVID Economy next post Working—and Thriving—in the Age of Digital Transformation You may also like A Cybersecurity Sit-Down with Former FBI Computer Scientist... September 21, 2021 Five steps to transform to on-premises cloud services September 23, 2020 Editor’s Letter – Fall 2020 September 22, 2020 Around The Storage Block September 22, 2020 Working—and Thriving—in the Age of Digital Transformation September 22, 2020 Lisa Partridge of XYPRO Technology Corporation: How We... September 22, 2020 Protecting Your Most Valuable Asset Demands A New... September 22, 2020 Software development reset – A remote DevOps epiphany September 22, 2020 AI: Living on the Edge September 22, 2020 Integrate Your HPE NonStop Servers with SailPoint Identity... September 22, 2020