> > For this reason I way prefer Rocks Cluster > > that is really a breeze to install, but they do not have the bootp > > paradigm... > > Which comes back to my original post that started the thred. I wat to make an > entirely _Gentoo_ based cluster. A good reason for this is that Gentoo > well...is Gentoo, don't want/need to start the philosophical debate on why > Gentoo is better than RHE(WS), CentOS and all on which Rocks is based... > Hey, if you can create a Gentoo base cluster that is as easy to install and maintain than Rocks Cluster is, you have my support. Being using Gentoo for 3 years, the benefit is obvious to me ;)
> > each node is a full image on it's own, but managmenet is > > centralized thrue the headnode. > > O_o.... now _that_ is something I would call inefficient. I can't immagine a > 1024 node cluster running off 1024 images stored on one server. In fact, there are no images. Each node is a full system on the hard drive. The head node can "order" the nodes to updates it's softwares, so updating the headnode will take care to also update the nodes automaticaly. Like you said, it's beside the point, but I think you could take a look at their design and draw some inpirations from it. An easy install like Rock Cluster but instead of using Kickstart(tm) files, would use the emerge system + distcc + quickpkg. -- [email protected] mailing list
