> I've got a question for experienced: there's a need on my univ, to > build a cluster. We may be given a bunch of PCs of similar > configuration to put them together into high performance cluster for > physicists. However, these PCs are supposed to be connected to the > external NFS as workstations, and students be allowed to login (on > their old accounts) and work on their projects. Is it possible to do > it with Gentoo? Is it possible to administrate _all_ nodes at once? > How would look emerge -u world, for all computers? Where to look to > more information?
The department admisn use a meta-ebuild and binary packages to keep our workstations in line here. Just have a system set aside as a build master and share your portage tree among the workstations. The process I use for the cluster is similar: http://support-dev.cis.ksu.edu/BeocatAdminDocs/HowBeocatWorks#virtuals The cluster uses an unionfs/nfs root, so it's not *quite* same as your setup, but the meta-ebuild concept is easily transferrable. -- Aaron Tygart -- [email protected] mailing list
