Hi everyone, I am fairly new to this list and have a few questions regarding debian beowulf. First, a bit of background. I am setting up a beowulf cluster from 16 old donated Sun SparcStation 20's, the main node has a 10gig HD and the slaves will be diskless clients. I am currently in the process of setting up NFS stuff to boot each client. However, finding resources has not been that easy, the linux HOW-TO's appear to be x86 specific, and do not even remotley mention the Debian tools available.
In the process of researching the correct method for setup, I ran across this article: http://freeos.com/articles/2444/2/1-3 and although a little out of date (mainly referring to some deprecated make-kpkg switches, no big deal) it would appear to be quite good for initially setting up my nodes. So here's what I am wondering: 1. Beyond the standard (and somewhat out of date) HOWTO's for beowulf clustering, is there either newer or debian resources? 2. I am limited to diskless nodes (due to $$$) however, what in your experiences provide a better setup? disked machines which need syncing or diskless nodes? 3. If there are documents for debian (or debian sparc) beowulf clustering which I am simply overlooking, I have been documenting all my work and would be happy to add sparc stuff, or update out of date documentation (since I have tonnes of my own notes kicking around here anyhow). Looking forward to your input. Regards, Dan Nedelko -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Research Software Developer tel: (519) 884-0710 x2731 Dept. of Physics and Computing cell:(519) 721-4045 Wilfrid Laurier University email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
