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Penguin Computing has built a Scyld Integrated Management Framework (IMF) that’s supposed to make it easier to monitor and manage what are usually quite elaborate HPC Beowolf clusters. It aggregates functionality in a single web interface and is extensible so users can add custom functionality whenever they like. Penguin thinks it’s the first to provide this kind of management extensibility to an HPC cluster.

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