On 11/12/12 7:05 PM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > You can boot over PXE using normal network cables and boot over the > gigabit ethernet using a cheap ethernet > router.
Thanks Vincent. Yes we gonna try that with a gigabyte hub. Just wonder anyone has other experience, for example PXE Boot on this link http://ulm.ccc.de/hg/pxeboot/raw-annotate/8c54643186a9/src/drivers/net/mlx_ipoib/doc/README.boot_over_ib. This PXEBoot lists our cards as supported. D. > > On Nov 12, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Duke Nguyen wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> We are still on the way of building our first small-cluster. Right now >> we have 16 diskless nodes 8GB RAM on X7DWT-INF and a master also on >> X7DWT-INF with 120GB disk and 16GB RAM. These boards (X7DWT-INF) has >> built-in Infiniband Card (Infiniband MT25204 20Gbps Controller), and I >> hoped that we can create a boot server on the master node for the 16 >> clients using IB connection. >> >> Unfortunately after reading, I found out that our built-card is too old >> for Mellanox FlexBoot: >> >> $ lspci -v | grep Mellanox >> 08:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx >> HCA] (rev 20) >> Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx HCA] >> >> whereas FlexBoot requires at least Connect2X-3X to work with. >> >> My questions are: >> >> * any body using the same (or similar main boards) and was able to >> boot using PXE? >> * if PXE server with Infiniband is impossible, then it is OK with a >> gigabyte connection? Or should we go for 16 disks for these 16 clients >> and dont care much on boot over IB or IP? (more money, of course) >> >> Thanks, >> >> D. >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
