You can boot over PXE using normal network cables and boot over the gigabit ethernet using a cheap ethernet router.
On Nov 12, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Duke Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, > > We are still on the way of building our first small-cluster. Right now > we have 16 diskless nodes 8GB RAM on X7DWT-INF and a master also on > X7DWT-INF with 120GB disk and 16GB RAM. These boards (X7DWT-INF) has > built-in Infiniband Card (Infiniband MT25204 20Gbps Controller), and I > hoped that we can create a boot server on the master node for the 16 > clients using IB connection. > > Unfortunately after reading, I found out that our built-card is too > old > for Mellanox FlexBoot: > > $ lspci -v | grep Mellanox > 08:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx > HCA] (rev 20) > Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx HCA] > > whereas FlexBoot requires at least Connect2X-3X to work with. > > My questions are: > > * any body using the same (or similar main boards) and was able to > boot using PXE? > * if PXE server with Infiniband is impossible, then it is OK with a > gigabyte connection? Or should we go for 16 disks for these 16 clients > and dont care much on boot over IB or IP? (more money, of course) > > Thanks, > > D. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin > Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
