Really the only technical difference between ES/AS/WS is /etc/redhat-release, and a script at install time that checks to see how many procs you have. The installation media is nearly exactly the same.
It's all marketing. Shouldn't be a problem -----Original Message----- From: Art Wildman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 7/5/2005 7:14 PM To: Bernard Li Cc: Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Redhat Enterprise with Fedora Nodes[Scanned] It would also be quite economical to run RHEL ES/AS on the master node and WS on the slave nodes. If that is feasable, please comment. Also curious how updates would be applied to different systems/images? [EMAIL PROTECTED] redhat.com | Compare - Server Packages http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/compare/#note1 Bernard Li wrote: > Hey Mike: > Currently it's not possible to do that, though I have been thinking > about it and it should be do-able, but it involves quite a bit of code > change. > The recommended route is to use the same Linux distro on the headnode > and the compute nodes. > Cheers, > Bernard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of > *Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 01, 2005 17:10 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Oscar-users] Redhat Enterprise with Fedora Nodes > > I was wondering if it’s possible (or common practice) to run your > OSCAR head node as something like Redhat Enterprise with all of > the client nodes as Fedora? The obviously would be to keep costs > down. Is it best to make all nodes the same as the head node? Just > wonder what the best situation would be for one of my clusters. > Thanks! > > Mike > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=ick _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
