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Cluster manager

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Within cluster and parallel computing, a cluster manager is usually backend graphical user interface (GUI) or command-line interface (CLI) software that runs on a set of cluster nodes that it manages (in some cases it runs on a different server or cluster of management servers).

The cluster manager works together with a cluster management agent. These agents run on each node of the cluster to manage and configure services, a set of services, or to manage and configure the complete cluster server itself (see supercomputing). In some cases the cluster manager is mostly used to dispatch work for the cluster (or cloud) to perform. In this last case a subset of the cluster manager can be a remote desktop application that is used not for configuration but just to send work and get back work results from a cluster. In other cases the cluster is more related to availability and load balancing than to computational or specific service clusters.

Free and open source

High-availability cluster

  • Apache Mesos, from the Apache Software Foundation
  • Kubernetes, founded by Google Inc, from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
  • Heartbeat, from Linux-HA
  • Proxmox
  • Docker Swarm
  • Red Hat cluster suite
  • OpenShift and OKD, from Red Hat
  • Nomad, from HashiCorp
  • Rancher, from Rancher Labs
  • TrinityX, from ClusterVision
  • Corosync Cluster Engine
  • OpenSVC
  • K3s ("Lightweight Kubernetes"), from Rancher Labs
  • Qlustar

Non-High-availability cluster

  • Foreman
  • oneSIS
  • OpenHPC
  • OpenSAF, founded by Motorola, from OpenSAF Foundation, implements Service Availability Forum
  • Rocks Cluster Distribution
  • Stacki, from StackIQ
  • Warewulf
  • YARN, distributed with Apache Hadoop
  • xCAT

Commercial

  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
  • Aspen Systems Inc - Aspen Cluster Management Environment (ACME)
  • Borg, used at Google
  • Bright Cluster Manager, from Bright Computing
  • ClusterVisor, from Advanced Clustering Technologies
  • CycleCloud, from Cycle Computing acquired By Microsoft
  • Komodor, Enterprise Kubernetes Management Platform
  • Dell/EMC - Remote Cluster Manager (RCM)
  • DxEnterprise, from DH2i
  • Evidian SafeKit
  • HPE Performance Cluster Manager - HPCM, from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
  • IBM PowerHA system mirror
  • IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms, from IBM
  • Microsoft Cluster Server, from Microsoft
  • Twine, from Facebook
  • Veritas Cluster Server

See also

  • Grid network

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