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• Bare metal provision method (diskful, diskless, statelite)
• Redhat, Ubuntu, SLE, CentOS
• ppc64le, x86_64, ppc64
• postgresql, sqlite, mariadb, mysql
• PowerAI, KVM, PowerVM, zVM, VMWare
• Docker

• Hierarchical Clusters
• Super large scale(>4000 nodes) HPC bare metal clusters
• Large scale(>1000 nodes) clusters
• Small-medium scale( <1000 nodes) clusters

Hierarchical Clusters Super large scale(>4000 nodes) HPC bare metal clusters Large scale(>1000 nodes) clusters Small-medium scale( <1000 nodes) clusters Bare metal provision method (diskful, diskless, statelite) Redhat, Ubuntu,

• Hierarchical Clusters Super large scale
  
• (>4000 nodes) HPC bare metal clusters Large
  
• scale(>1000 nodes) clusters Small-medium scale
  
• ( <1000 nodes) clusters

• Hierarchical Clusters Super large scale
  
• (>4000 nodes) HPC bare metal clusters Large
  
• scale(>1000 nodes) clusters Small-medium scale
  
• ( <1000 nodes) clusters

• Hierarchical Clusters Super large scale
  
• (>4000 nodes) HPC bare metal clusters Large
  
• scale(>1000 nodes) clusters Small-medium scale
  
• ( <1000 nodes) clusters

Hierarchical Clusters Super large scale(>4000 nodes) HPC bare metal clusters Large scale(>1000 nodes) clusters Small-medium scale( <1000 nodes) clusters
Bare metal provision method  Hierarchical Clusters Super large scale(>4000 nodes) HPC bare metal clusters Large scale(>1000 nodes) clusters Small-medium scale( <1000 nodes) clusters
Bare metal provision method 

• Management protocols (IPMI, HMC, FSP, OpenBMC)
• Remote console
• Firmware flash
• Power management
• BMC configuration
• Sensor inventory
• RAID

• BMC discovery
• Switch based switch discovery
• Active scanning discovery
• ZTP based discovery(ONIE)
• MTMS based discovery
• Switch based discovery
• Sequential discovery

xCAT offers complete management for HPC clusters, RenderFarms, Grids,
WebFarms, Online Gaming Infrastructure, Clouds, Datacenters etc.

whatever tomorrow's buzzwords may be.

It is agile, extensible, based on years of system administration
best practices and experience.

• Software maintenance
• Parallel command and file dispatch
• Restful API
• OS image life cycle manage

• NVIDIA nvidia-smi
• Mellanox InfiniBand(IB) adapter install
• IB network configure
• IB switch configure
• UFM configure
• Firmware Updates

xCAT is an open-source tool for automating deployment, scaling, and management of bare metal severs and virtual machines.  Get Started Now > Join us > OS Provision Scale Configuration management GPU IB Hardware Control Infrastructure Discovery Quick Start

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