I started the aformentionned thread a month or so back. Now things are getting on a roll. Thanks to Jimmy Rosen and Wilhelm Meier, I am presently writing up two documents to try to make this as clear and simple as possible for us Gentoo users:
Configuring a client for diskless operation (SSI): http://wiki.neuralbs.com/index.php/Gentoo_Diskless_Client Configuring a server as a Beowulf headnode for such SSI clients with a selection of management/performance tools: http://wiki.neuralbs.com/index.php/Installing_Gentoo_as_a_Beowulf_Head_node I presently mostly ennumerate packages. My intention is to explicit a typical configuration for each component. Ideally, I will/would create a meta-ebuild that would pull most fo these tools and pre-configure most of the config files using a combination of scripts/global config file sourced by the script. Some of the aspects which will be eating up most of my time: ebuild for OpenMPI ebuild for lam-mpi 6.x (an expliocit requirement by my department, no comments on this please...unless you already have an ebuild ;) ) ...learn how to configure all these tools to interact correctly together. Obviously, any comments/contributions are more than welcommed! ;) -- Eric Thibodeau Neural Bucket Solutions Inc. T. (514) 736-1436 C. (514) 710-0517 -- [email protected] mailing list
