• Support for ProLiant Gen 8 BL-series, DL-series and SL-series servers, as well as the ML350 Gen 8 server
• Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6
• Simplified cluster configuration and improved cluster performance through integration with HP iLO Management Engine
  • Integration of HP Smart Update Manager to install firmware on GUI-selected sets of nodes
  • Bios version consistency and settings checker
  • Out-of-band monitoring which can be integrated with HP Agentless Management
• Introducing 3-D time view displays for monitoring health and performance during a window of time
• Improved reliability, availability and serviceability through alert-management
  • Alerts can trigger actions including integration with HP SIM event management
• Support for concurrent cloning, to improve performance of dynamically-scheduled provisioning, and to support rolling upgrades

From the HP Insight CMU GUI, you can monitor, halt, boot, reboot or power off any selection of nodes using iLO2, iLO3, iLO4 and LO100i adaptors. Your HP Insight CMU session connects to several nodes in the cluster and broadcasts commands to the selected nodes. More generally, the HP Insight CMU graphical interface provides an extensible method for one-click selection of groups of nodes on which menu-selectable operations can be performed. Examples (included by default) include pdsh (distributed shell) and pdcp (distributed copy). Pdsh comes with a filtering engine, cmu_diff, for scaling the command-line feedback. Other features available from the default drop-down menu are automated firmware update, BIOS consistency verification and BIOS setting modification. You can also use HP Insight CMU for reporting and managing cluster events, such as nodes shutting down or powering up. Using the HP Insight CMU CLI, you can halt, boot, reboot or power off any selection of nodes by using the HP server management card functionality where appropriate. Group and node administration tasks like create/modify or delete are also available through HP Insight CMU CLI and shell commands. This capability allows, for example, the dynamic creation of groups of nodes matching Adaptive MOAB®, Platform LSF®, Altair PBS® Professional™ and SLURM (and other resource manager) node allocations.

HP Insight CMU has the capability to propagate an operating system image to all of the compute nodes in the cluster. HP Insight CMU can clone, (over the network), disk partition contents from an image server to the local disks of the compute nodes. You use this process for first time installation of compute nodes and also to propagate updates to the kernel or the current system configuration. Several images can be cloned concurrently, thus permitting rolling upgrades as well as efficient dynamic provisioning. HP Insight CMU automatically manages the target disk partitioning in cases where the target partition differs from the initial image. HP Insight CMU partitions the target disk during the cloning phase, avoiding the partitioning of each compute node during the first installation. Cloning functionality is available from both the HP Insight CMU CLI and GUI. HP Insight CMU maintains a repository of 'golden images' that can be used for cloning sets of nodes in the cluster. These golden images are created by capturing the disk contents of a selected node in the cluster. Also, tools are available which permit the administrator to directly edit the golden image. The cloning algorithm is scalable and achieves high efficiency through hierarchical provisioning. In addition, HP Insight CMU supports diskless cloning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. As part of the cloning procedure, HP Insight CMU has a mechanism for running scripts just after the completion of cloning and also during the cloning phase, just after netboot. The netboot environment integrates low-level tools such as conrep and ipmitool that enable setup of RAID (HW) controllers, BIOS, and management cards. The Conrep tool permits, for example, the remote flashing of the bios (when available on the platform). HP Insight CMU also includes scripts for the installation of GPGPU drivers, CUDA libraries, etc.
Aside from the cloning feature, HP Insight CMU also provides the ability to auto install using kickstart (for Red Hat), autoyast (for SUSE) or preseed (for Debian) remote installation.

HP Insight CMU has an application interface which is designed for easy extensibility of the scalable framework. This interface has been used to integrate several popular HPC management products with HP Insight CMU.

• The ScaleMP vSMP virtual SMP operating system for multiple servers has been integrated with the HP Insight CMU provisioning technology so that a cluster administrator can select a set of nodes managed by CMU and provision them to become a virtual SMP system.
• The Adaptive Computing "Moab Adaptive HPC" scheduler has been integrated with HP Insight CMU's imaging technology for dynamic provisioning
• The Altair "PBS Professional" scheduler has been integrated with HP Insight CMU's imaging technology for dynamic provisioning. Integration has also been done with HP Insight CMU's remote management features so that PBS Professional can power off nodes as necessary to save power consumption. In addition, HP Insight CMU can assist in the installation, removal and upgrades of PBS Professional.
• The Platform LSF workload manager compute-node database has been integrated with the HP Insight CMU compute-node database so that when HP Insight CMU adds a node to a cluster, that node is automatically added as an LSF client. Also, LSF job metrics have been added as sensors to be displayed by HP Insight CMU.
• The StackIQ Rocks+ product includes a cluster provisioning system and cluster package manager, as well as an HPC cluster stack. HP Insight CMU has been added to the Rocks+ HPC "roll", and can therefore be installed by Rocks+ with a single command. After installation, HP Insight CMU can provide monitoring and control of the Rocks+ cluster.

HP Insight CMU software is supported on HP ProLiant DL-series, BL-series and SL-series servers, as well as the HP WS460c Workstation Blade, the ProLiant ML370 G6 and the ProLiant ML350p Gen 8 server. Insight HP Insight CMU Software can also be supported on other servers, including non-HP servers. For more information, please contact your HP sales representative.

Each server can be connected to the others with a valid system interconnect that could be Gigabit, 10 Gigabit Ethernet or InfiniBand.

All SATA or SAS hard disk drives configurations are supported, provided that those drives are supported by the servers.

For the Software license to be valid on an HP Cluster, each server in the HP Cluster must be licensed by an HP Insight CMU License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the payment of any applicable license fee, HP grants You a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to Use (as defined below) in object code form one copy of the Software on one device at a time for Your internal business purposes, unless otherwise indicated above or in applicable Transaction Document(s). "Use" means to install, store, load, execute and display the Software in accordance with the Specifications. Your Use of the Software is subject to these license terms and to the other restrictions specified by HP in any other tangible or electronic documentation delivered or otherwise made available to You with or at the time of purchase of the Software, including license terms, warranty statements, Specifications, and "readme" or other informational files included in the Software itself. Such restrictions are hereby incorporated in this Agreement by reference. Some Software may require license keys or contain other technical protection measures. You acknowledge that HP may monitor your compliance with Use restrictions remotely or otherwise. If HP makes a license management program available which records and reports license usage information, You agree to appropriately install, configure and execute such license management program beginning no later than one hundred and eighty (180) days from the date it is made available to You and continuing for the period that the Software is Used.

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HP Insight CMU supports the FlexLM license management facility. The FlexLM license key is provided upon presentation of a valid license key request form. This form is delivered with the software license (see the Ordering Information section of these QuickSpecs). For more information about installing the HP Insight CMU license keys, refer to the HP Insight CMU documentation.

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A variety of customer service options are available from Hewlett-Packard for HP Insight CMU. For more information, contact your local Hewlett-Packard office.

Amongst the service options are software factory installation services, where HP Insight CMU is installed and configured on Cluster Platforms at the factory. There are also on-site Consulting and Integration Services available for HP Insight CMU. Contact your local Hewlett-Packard office or your Hewlett-Packard services representative for more information.