On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Calcpage <calcp...@aol.com> wrote: > So, how is OSCAR different from RocksCluster? >
They are different in that Rocks only supports RedHat (and RH derivatives like CentOS) and maybe Solaris. It uses a RH specific installation mechanism to install compute node images. Specifically, it uses kickstart. Rocks also throws a wrapper around the installer for the head node. So, when installing Rocks, you are always installing a fresh image on a bare hard drive. OSCAR, on the other hand, uses a generic node image mechanism called sisuite, systemimager. Sisuite is capable of installing many different operating systems on a bare hard drive. With Rocks you 1. Image head node 2. Image compute nodes With OSCAR: 1. Install operating system of choice 2. Install OSCAR head node packages 3. Image compute nodes Does that help? Chuck ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
