Camm Maguire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
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> Greetings! Subject says it all. Can we learn/implement any
> techniques from Scyld for Debian Beowulf clusters?
debianizing scyld shouldn't be that tough. they provide a custom
kernel, glibc, mpich, and some system utilities ( i think 10 rpms
altogether)
what can we learn?
. turning other nodes in a cluster into pure
compute nodes is a *lot* easier to administer and set up than
the current setup of N full installs. scyld brings a paradigm
similar to a cray T3E to beowulfery.
. a single interface to the cluster makes much more sense than having
to "rsh node3 ps auxwww".
. having a minimum amount of installed libraries on the slave nodes
makes upgrading a piece of cake.
==rob
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