FAI installations
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Here's the list of more than 170 FAI users, that had
answered the questionnaire.
- FAI for Solaris is an older
version of FAI that supports Solaris. We have
installed more than 20 different SPARC machines with Solaris 9 using
FAI. This code is not longer maintained.
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HPC2N Opteron Cluster Sarek is a
192 node dual AMD Opteron cluster that was listed at rank 168 in the
top500.org list in june 2004.
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A 10 node dual-CPU AMD Opteron 1.4GHz called RAVANA with
pictures.
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An IA64 cluster is listed on place 354 in the Top500.
Lucidor is
probably one of the first IA64-clusters installed using FAI.
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The HPC2N Super Cluster Seth
with 120 dual Athlon nodes. This cluster was on the 94th position in the top500.org supercomputer list in june 2002
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The 100
Robots Project
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The university of California Santa Barbara has a
16 node dual AMD 1.8Ghz Beowulf cluster for database and distributed systems research
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23 nodes with Athlon XP are used by the TIK Experimental Cluster Scylla.
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A 21 nodes with dual XEON 2.4GHz Beowulf cluster called shiva build with FAI 2.4beta:
and a detailed report
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A 21 nodes AMD 1GHz Beowulf cluster called hydra
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A 23 nodes Athlon XP cluster called scylla
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A 28 nodes AMD 1GHz Beowulf
cluster build with FAI 2.5beta used for molecular thermodynamics and
simulation
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A cluster
at the department of Physical Resource Theory at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg/ Sweden. 10 Nodes with
a total of 13 CPUs.
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A Beowulf cluster called Biowulf/IME with
16 nodes of 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon used for bioinformatic applications.
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A small, and cheap privat Beowulf cluster called G-Cluster with
3 nodes.
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FAI on linux for SUN Sparc
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Several clusters
at Matsulab of the Tokyo Institute of Technology are
installed using lucie, which is a mixture of FAI
and some other tools like ganglia, nagios, dolly+ and others. Most FAI
tasks are rewritten in ruby and
but have the same functionality. They installed following clusters with
lucie: Presto I, Presto II, Presto III, OBI Grid Cluster
- The Working Centre Linux
Project also uses FAI for its installation and has some
documention concerning FAI.
Other FAI documentation
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An interview
in german with Thomas
- Articles about the Limux project and FAI: article1,
article2,
DWN article
- German description from the linux user group Hamburg
- Documentation about a project with FAI: Installation eines Linux-Clients
mittels FAI-Server (in German, 3/2007)
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A cluster with 64 dual CPU Opteron nodes was installed using FAI at
the Geophysics section of the Department of Earth and Environmental
Sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.
Report in german (6/2006).
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Joachim Breitner wrote a technical documentation about his work at the SOS Hermann Gmeiner
International College in Tema, Ghana. It contains a chapter about FAI (12/2006).
- A german documentation about FAI 2.9 and 3.1 from the TU Graz
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Hennin Sprang gave a talk (slides)
in german about how to install and monitor XEN machines (12/2006).
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Thomas Lange gave an interview in German for RadioTux.de (2006)
- The project COSPA - Consortium
for Open Source in the Public Administration has some documents in
english and german which also covers FAI:
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Mass Debian Desktop Administration (2005)
- Experience gained in building a Linux cluster for GOL by Lorenzo Campo and Daniele Manetti (2006)
- Le rapport de projet: Etude du système FAI (en français, in french, 2004/2005)
- Arcady Genkin gave a talk on Automated
Linux Management Infrastructure
- Federico Sevilla III gave a talk
at LinuxWorld Philippines Conference 2005
about Standarizing & Automating Enterprise Deployment of Debian
GNU/Linux which he does with FAI.
- A nice documentation how to use RAID and mdadm with FAI.
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Carla Schroder wrote a tutorial in Linux Planet about Rolling Out Unattended Debian Installations.
Part 1
Part 2
(dec 2004)
- A
short article in the german computer magazin called
it-administrator (sep 2004)
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The german book Debian
GNU/Linux Anwenderhandbuch from Frank Ronneburg includes a chapter about FAI.
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Here's an interview
with me in german. (aug 2004)
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FAI on Alpha architecture
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There is an article in
czech about FAI with example configuration. (mar 2004)
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This is a documentation on documentation on FAI in
Portuguese. (doc format, jan 2006)
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A complete translation of the FAI Guide in romanian language is available.
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There's a topic
concerning FAI on Debian Romania and a short manual
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A comparison between FAI and SISuite
- French translation of the FAI guide html
version plain ASCII and pdf
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A description in german about an installation with FAI
http://www.sigterm.de/~jan/fai/doc/html/
- An article
(in German) about the installation of a Beowulf Cluster used for
physical chemistry research.
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DESY Hamburg is using FAI for its DOOCS project.
A paper for a poster was presented on the 4th International Workshop
on Personal Computers and Particle Accelerator Controls in 2002:
http://www.lnf.infn.it/conference/pcapac2002/TALK/TU-P09/TU-P09.pdf
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DOOCS, a Distributed Object Oriented Control System uses FAI for
installation. Here are the foils from a tutorial:
http://tesla.desy.de/doocs/doocs_tutorial/AutomatedDoocsInstallation.pdf
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A very detailed guide (in pdf)
how a specific cluster was set up using FAI:
http://www.physics.ubc.ca/mbelab/berserk_doc/steam-admin/html/index.html
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An article in german about the use of FAI at the university of augsburg:
http://www.rz.uni-augsburg.de/connect/2002-01/linux/linux.pdf
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A description of automatic installation tools in german: http://www.linuxfibel.de/autoinstall.htm#debian
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A presentation in german, about
system-management and deployment with FAI. What is FAI, how does it
work, what is possible, how does our company use FAI.
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Notes and
foils of building a Beowulf cluster from a winter school in 2001.
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Working Centre Linux Project
is using FAI as installer. This project seems to be unactive since end
of 2004.
- A
very old documentation in german about automatic installation tool
for several distributions.
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