Have you tried using oneSIS for going diskless? emerge -va onesis
Check out http://onesis.org for more info. -JE On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 15:04 -0400, Simon-Nicolas Roth wrote: > Hi, > > A small introduction: > We currently own 2 small clusters. One with 42 opteron diskless nodes (adelie > gentoo linux) and another one with 24 pentium 4 diskless nodes (based on > Kyron's wiki http://wiki.neuralbs.com/index.php/Gentoo_Diskless_Client). > > We have seen a nice upgrade in perfomance when we changed the 24 nodes > cluster > from Redhat to Gentoo. > > The question: > We are in discussion to make a cluster with around 1024 nodes for parallel > scientific computing. I want to convince that Gentoo would be better on this > cluster than RedHat! Most people around this project don't believe in Gentoo > (obviously because they have never done anything with Gentoo). > > Does anyone have really solid arguments/articles/proofs about the performance > of Gentoo on clusters to help me convice the RedHat guys? > > Thanks > Simon -- gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org mailing list
