ubccr/grendel repository overview

⁠Grendel - Bare Metal Provisioning for HPC

Grendel is a fast, easy to use bare metal provisioning system for High Performance Computing (HPC) Linux clusters. Grendel simplifies the deployment and administration of physical compute clusters both large and small. It's developed by the University at Buffalo Center for Computational Research (CCR) with more than 20 years of experience in HPC. Grendel is under active development and currently runs CCR's production HPC clusters ranging from 200 to 1500 nodes.

⁠Key Features

• Web based frontend
  • Frontend demo⁠ User/pass = grendel-demo
• DHCP/PXE/TFTP provisioning
• DNS forward and reverse resolution
• Automatic host discovery
• Diskful and Stateless provisioning
• BMC/iDRAC control via RedFish and IPMI
• Authorized provisioning using Branca tokens
• Rest API
• Easy installation (single binary with no deps)

⁠Project status

Grendel is under heavy development, use at your own risk. Docker image support can be considered in alpha.

⁠Where to find out more

• Visit our repo: https://github.com/ubccr/grendel⁠
• Or checkout our docs: https://grendel.readthedocs.io/⁠