Hello, This is a general design question to the OSCAR developers.
Is there a possibility or are people thinking about the ability to define slave image servers in OSCAR? We are planning a system with over 2'000 hosts that we are considering to manage with OSCAR (a very small scale prototype of our farm is already running with OSCAR and we are rather happy so far) but we don't deem it reasonable to let all nodes boot from the same node for a number of reasons but would rather group smaller subfarms around a set of OSCAR image servers. On the other side, we don't want either to have to manage these OSCAR subfarms independently, each with its own independent installation and management, since they have a lot of things in common. So arises naturally the desire to have a central OSCAR master where one could define several images (not all nodes in the 2000 have the same function in our system and different configurations are needed) which could delegate to slave servers the management of a subset of nodes. AFAIK OSCAR doesn't allow for slave servers at the moment, correct me if I'm wrong. Is there anything in the works to allow for such a feature? I would think it very desirable. I am of course also interested to hear about other people's experience in dealing with clusters of one to a few thousands nodes though it's useful to point out that our cluster is not a batch cluster where all nodes are equal and have the same functions, we don't need a batch system on it anyway. Regards, Vuko ===========================================================| Vuko Brigljevic, EP Research Fellow | CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics | --------------------------------------------------------- | Mail Address: CERN, Div. EP, 1211 Geneve 23 (Switzerland) | Office : B40-2B08 | Phone : +41-22-767 1662 | www : http://cern.ch/vuko | ===========================================================| ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
