The pack of Beagles do have local disk storage (there¹s a 2GB flash on board with a Debian image that it boots from).
The LittleFe depends on the BCDD (i.e. ³CD rom with cluster image², actually a USB stick) which is the sort of thing I was hoping for, but it is x86. OTOH, maybe that¹s a pattern to start with. the BCDD also runs out of RAM, which may or may not be a good model. An interesting challenge On 1/27/17, 11:42 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Hamilton, Scott" <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org on behalf of scott.hamil...@atos.net> wrote: >I believe the Rocks distro will work on the Beagles with very little >modification as long as you have local disk storage on the Beagles. In >my experience most people who use Beagles and other single board >computers use network boot images on the main board and do not use any >local storage which is not a use case for Rocks. It is highly likely >that the methods used for the littlefe clusters would work great for a >cluster of Beagles. The clusters of Rasp-Pi boards are difficult to >automate because even network booting requires formatting a custom SD >card so it becomes just as much work as doing it by hand. > >Scott > >Scott Hamilton >Solution Architect II >Atos Big Data & Security - NAO >(573)324-7124 >scott.hamil...@atos.net > >-----Original Message----- >From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hahn >Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 11:13 AM >To: beowulf@beowulf.org >Subject: Re: [Beowulf] clusters of beagles > >> But nobody is doing a rocks or warewulf for beagles yet. > >eh? what's unique about them that makes traditional techniques not apply? >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
