-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/14 13:48, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> What kind of disk setup do you have on the master node? There is > only so much one master can take in terms of netbooting before you > see performance degridation All the nodes boot the same image file, so it's actually the NIC that tends to be the choke point. Our IBM systems boot over 10gigE adapters so we don't see an issue there, but our older SGI system is over gigE so we boot those in sets of 30 nodes or so. All the best, Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlOyR7kACgkQO2KABBYQAh9eEACfTt1rTtQlL6ayGcNlH5CIEL7x GKUAn0kiHB5OaCvPEySKub9sX8pGfN6c =kmmg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
