> > > Does anyone have expirience with diskless clients and Beowulf? With afs > > and Beowulf? Are there any benchmarks, that we can run to say it works or > > not. > > I don't know what kind of set up you are talking about for sure, > but we do have cambria.doshisha.ac.jp running 240 diskless nodes > as cluster nodes, running off NFS filesystems. > > regards, > junichi >
If you run diskless nodes then distributed filesystems are not going to very usefull ;) I have not seen any serious benchmarks for all[1] of these filesystems. Each is largely effected by the topology and technology of your cluster. [1] CODA, OpenAFS, GFS, OpenGFS, Lustre (Am I missing any?). c. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

