"Andrew D. Fant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Hearns wrote: > >> Eh? Install the libraries in /usr/local/xxxxx on the head node. >> Export this as an NFS share. Mount on all nodes, and put it into your >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. >> IMHO, there is very little reason for installing APPLICATION level >> libraries on individual nodes. > > uhm, aside from NFS being SLOW and not scaling well?
I really don't think the loading of dynamic libraries is performance sensitive. The (non-dedicated) machine that serves /usr/local with all our compiler and math libs to our 200 node cluster is idling along. -- Leif Nixon - Systems expert ------------------------------------------------------------ National Supercomputer Centre - Linkoping University ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
