CFEngine in a High Performance Computing environment
CFEngine in HPC In High-Performance Computing (HPC) uptime and performance are very important. HPC is an area of computing that often focuses on research and development, supporting teams with extremely complex problems they need to solve, and heavy computation mathematical problems, such as protein folding for vaccine development. To achieve this, HPC systems rely on high performance, the equipment is expensive, and the average customer has very high demands. Any downtime, performance degradation, misconfiguration, or unexpected behavior will be a financial cost and will reduce the customers’ trust in the HPC provider. CFEngine is a configuration management tool that is created to manage such environments and truly excels at its tasks in an environment like this. The modular architecture, the small size, fast executables, self-healing properties, and autonomous execution are what make CFEngine ideal for these tasks. In this short blog post, we will look at these aspects of CFEngine, and how CFEngine users are saving money and improving the service they offer their users by leveraging CFEngine.
