Actually openmosix would _definately_ provide help in that department. I believe you 
can just mount the srver root as the node root and have all the clients lok _exactly_ 
like the server with no fancy work needed. As to openmosix you really need to look in 
to it. JohnHopkins Universty used it together mpi/pvm for the human genome project

Evan 


On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:31:31 -0600
Mike Eggleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Tom Schouteden wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 14:02, Mike Eggleston wrote:
> > > Does anyone have any recomendations on how to strip ltsp
> > > to its minimum for running as the os on a cluster's nodes? The
> > > applications and support data for the cluster processing
> > > I will have on nfs mounts. I see a stripped down ltsp as having
> > > nfsd, busybox, bash, no gcc, some way to load perl through
> > > nfs, what else?
> > 
> > have you considered using mosix ltsp or is that not an option?
> 
> My application uses fine-grained parallelism in that the main
> application runs on the head, scatters the work units to the
> nodes, then gathers the results, somes some analysis, then
> starts over. I don't think mosix would work for that. I plan on
> having the head manage the nodes directly through mpi or pvm,
> unless someone has a better suggestion.
> 
> Mike
> 
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