THE PERSPECTIVES OF USING FREEBSD IN CLUSTER ARCHITECTURES

Managing a cluster infrastructure is a difficult task: system administrators must choose the most suitable hardware and software solutions, while making trade-offs and checking various configurations. When choosing the operating system that will run on the cluster's servers, system administrators must consider system's security and stability and resource allocation, isolation and orchestration methods. This paper analyses the requirements a cluster-centered operating system must meet and shows that FreeBSD is a suitable candidate for running in cluster architectures. Then, a hybrid architecture for a general-purpose cluster is proposed. Afterwards, the current status of deploying the proposed configuration in National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest's cluster infrastructure and the issues we encountered are presented.