On 01/27/2017 12:14 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > 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
BCCD actually does support a "liberated" mode (RAM disk copied to persistent storage). We're also not tied to x86 - we actually used to have a PPC port, and are considering supporting ARM now that there's some educational-scale HPC platforms (small multi-core boards w/ 2+GB RAM, GPGPU, wifi, on-board wired Ethernet) available. Skylar _______________________________________________ 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
