massimiliano cialdi wrote:
is it possible to run acluster in which some machines are "naked"?
I mean a computer with only mother board (with an integrated NIC to
boot up), cpu and ram; without any mass storage device (such hard
disk, floppy or CD), keyboard, mouse and graphic card.
There are two issues here.
(1) Can you get the machine BIOS to boot at all. Most BIOSes do not
require a keyboard or storage devices, but I'd expect most will want a
graphic card, memory and CPU.
(2) If you can get the BIOS to boot, then can you get a Linux kernel to
run? The answer to this is most certainly. You can do a PXE or other
network boot and go from there. You'll have to use a ramdisk or NFS
mount the filesystem from another system.
I asked about running diskless clients on the OpenMosix mailing list and
one person told me:
I did get a cluster running with one "master" and 14 "clients" via the
Linux Terminal Server Project: http://www.ltsp.org
Another guy pointed me do http://www.purehacking.com/chaos/
In any case I had enough people respond to know that one CAN run
diskless. The devil is in the details, of course.
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