On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 12:29:19 -0400 (EDT) Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I was wondering how stateless node fair with very memory intensive > >applications. Does it simply require you to have a large amount of > >RAM to house your file system and program data? or are there other > >limitations? > > it depends. stateless just means stuff isn't installed on local > disks; Or not even that. We extract an image onto a local drive on each boot. Nodes have no state in this case (the local rootfs essentially just a cache of the network provided image). This approach I consider stateless without using RAM or relying on a network-filesystem for os. /Peter K > it can be made available two main ways: as an rdimage (single > blob provided at boot time via PXE) or as some network-mounted > filesystem. ... _______________________________________________ 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
