Current large scale computational research infrastructures are composed of multitudes
of compute nodes fitted with similar or identical hardware. For practical
purposes, the deployment of the software operating environment to each compute
node is done in an automated fashion. If a data centre hosts more than one of
these systems – for example cloud and HPC clusters – it is beneficial to use the
same provisioning method for all of them. The uniform provisioning approach
unifies administration of the various systems and allows flexible dedication and
reconfiguration of computational resources. In particular, we will highlight the
requirements on the underlying network infrastructure for unified remote boot
but segregated service operations. Building upon this, we will present the Boot
Selection Service, allowing for the addition, removal or rededication of a node to
a given research infrastructure with a simple reconfiguration
