2009/5/15 Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051...@gmail.com>: > also dont forget the more nodes you have booting off the master the > more access time your gonna need to do a pxe boot from the one master > node. if you plan on splitting things up once you notice a degredation > in booting performance and putting a certain number of nodes on each > master node that should help to disipate the pxe booting time needed > to boot all the nodes.
This is the way the SGI ICE is architected - each rack of blades has a 'rack leader' machine, which is the machine which PXE boots the blades in the rack, and acts as their root NFS server. Scales very well! _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
