desktop interface at least for the master node. then the others can pxe boot from the master. i know this becomes problematic the large the cluster. for now i think starting like this would be good to have a distro for people such as myself who are quite new to clustering.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Jakob Oestergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:56:31PM +0200, Jon Aquilina wrote: > > ive been thinking bout building an easy to use cluster distro based on > > kubuntu where would the ideal place for me to start. the desktop > interface > > the kernel? > > How about "neither" ? :) > > I don't mean to discourage you, but I can't help but being a little bit > sceptic > about the purpose and usefulness of all of this. > > Honestly, if I were to install a new cluster, I'd worry about > *) Libraries (ATLAS and gmp for the hardware, a good MPI) > *) Job control server and tools (SGE?) > *) Proper single-sign on (Kerberos authentication) and generally proper > integration between the systems (I don't know if NFSv4 works these days, > but > if it does that would be truly fantastic coupled with automount and a > directory for authorization and mount maps) > > Possibly if it was for development of simulation tools and not production > runs > of "finished" tools, I'd want development tools like valgrind, binutils > and a > good new gcc suite. > > I'm sure the good people on this list have more requirements. > > The kernel should "just work". Outside of having a properly patched > actually > working kernel configured for server usage (which many distros, including > ubuntu, have these days) with the proper NUMA awareness and bit width (64 > of'em) to deal with the hardware, there's not much won from fiddling with > it. > Really, if your code spends its time in the kernel, you have much bigger > problems :) > > And desktop interface? On a cluster what for? > > > -- > > / jakob > > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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