PhilFraher

Drew Taylor, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) Asst. Prof, Elec & Comp Engineering

“X-ISS has been very helpful in system administration and general HPC consultation in relation to multiple research projects with our group.”

X-ISS Upgrades xCAT Cluster Manager with Custom BitTorrent Deployment

X-ISS successfully upgraded a client’s cluster manager from xCAT 2.3 to xCAT 2.8 without any system downtime. Along with the upgrade, X-ISS designed and implemented BitTorrent as the compute node image transfer technology, possibly the first such deployment on an xCAT cluster. The...