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The growing maturity of hardware and software components has tempted researchers to build very large SCI clusters with several hundred processors that are operated as high-performance compute servers in multi-user mode.
In this chapter, we present a resource management software for the user access and system administration of high-performance compute clusters named Computing Center Software (CCS). It is in day-to-day use since 1992 on various parallel systems and has recently been adapted to the management of SCI clusters. CCS provides pluggable schedulers, optimal space partitioning for multiple users, reliable user access, and powerful tools for specifying resources and services by means of a specification language and a graphical user interface.
After a brief introduction in the remainder of this section, we describe the CCS system architecture and the characteristics of its resource description facilities.
The work presented in this chapter was done while all three authors were at Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, http://www.upb.de/pc2
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Brune, M., Keller, A., Reinefeld, A. (1999). Multi-User System Management on SCI Clusters. In: Hellwagner, H., Reinefeld, A. (eds) SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1734. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10704208_34
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