I take it that heterogeneous here refers to function and not the hardware because I have homogeneous hardware on my LAN/classroom.
Regards, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math & CS Baldwin SHS & Nassau CC http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Sent from my iPod On Jul 24, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Chuck Ritter <cfr...@psu.edu> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:09 AM, A. Jorge Garcia <calcp...@aol.com> > wrote: >> Oh, OK, I see, so you are not reimaging the head node. Then you use >> the head node to image the compute nodes. Thusly, if the head node >> starts out running Ubuntu, so do the compute nodes? So, OSCAR is >> installed over the base distro. >> > > That would be the most common scenario. In theory, you could create > different node images for heterogeneous nodes (maybe you have: compute > nodes, login nodes, and storage nodes). You could in theory also have > a new image for every major upgrade, or multi-boot image, etc.. In > practice, homogeneous compute nodes are typical. > > --- > --- > --- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
