On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:04:53PM +0200, 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.
Without a graphics card, most BIOSes will beep, not boot. With a PXE capable network interface, you can (using memdisk or the like) start almost everything on the node. (even a harddisk image, if it fits into memory) I guess a minimum VGA card is required. Then the answer is yes! Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) SciencePark Golm, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam * http://www.aei.mpg.de * e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} No Word/PPT mails - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
