Michael,
This should be sufficient enough to run our software stack as they are
tested on rhel 4 variants. I will most definitely look closer at scyld
CW4 to see if it fits our needs.
What does reimplementing pxe boot mean specifically?
Thanks,
Eric
Michael Will wrote:
Scyld CW4 is based on RHEL4 and also supported on Centos 4. That does
not give you different
operating systems though, just flexible deployment of RHEL4 based HPC
compute nodes.
Note that we had to reimplement the PXE boot part to allow reasonable
scaling.
Michael
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Subject: Re: [Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes
Not to diverge this conversation, but has anyone had any experience
using this pxe boot / nfs model with a rhel variant? I have been
wanting to do a nfs root or ramdisk model for some-time but our software
stack requires a rhel base so Scyld and Perceus most likely will not
work (although I am still looking into both of them to make sure)
Thanks for any help,
Eric Shook
Buccaneer for Hire. wrote:
[snip]
I agree with what Joe says about a few hundred nodes being the time
you would start to look closer at this approach.
I have started to explore the possibility of using this technology
because I would really like to see us with the ability to change OSs and
OS Personalities as needed. The question I have is with 2000+ compute
nodes what kind of infrastructure do I need to support this?
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