Bruce Becker wrote: >Hello OSCAR friends. > >I have a slight dilemma, which I would like the advice of the OSCAR >community to help me in resolving. Let's say I have a cluster up and >running, based on Opterons. Now, I get a quote - a good quote - to >extend it; the only problem is that the new boxes have Intel chips >(either Xeon or Itanium). Now, our application compiles and runs fine >on all of the above, but I'm wondering how much of a pain managing >the cluster is going to be. My question is : > >Has anyone out there tried this or something like this before - >managing a heterogeneous OSCAR cluster ? I'm particularly worried >about the imaging process... > >Any other experience or advice is most appreciated and will help us in >making our choice. > >Thanks >Bruce > > >_______________________________________________ >Oscar-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > > Hello,
we have done a thing a bit different in our departement: we use an intel (Xeon) headnode with opteron slave nodes. We have installed the opteron linux version on all CPU (intel head node and opteron slave nodes) without problems. Opterons are EM64T enabled so there is no binary problem with executables. We haven't Itanium, i don't know if an opteron image will work on an itanium as well as on Xeon. Why don't you try to install the current image on an opteron and made some test with running executables... Best Regards, Damien -- Damien MATTEI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement Gemini - UMR6203 http://www.obs-azur.fr/ Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur Nice-Grasse-Caussols FRANCE _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
