You could custom make one generic system and clone it eight times for the initial
install, but I have another question.
With your NFS root partition everything has to be generic 386, but with a local
install you could build nodes to take better advantage of varying hardware. Not that
it matters, what with their not exactly being state of the art and all. And I still
think OpenMosix would be easier, what with not having to write parallel-aware
programs. But to be far most of my pro-MPI feelings stem from the fact that I will
probably never need to deal with a 2 gig file in any close personal way, and process
migration sounds just peachy.
--- "Ted Kat." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>--- Mike Schieuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So Ted.... any particular distro your looking at? I know you "roll
>> your own"
>> distro which is extremely cool. But would an actual distro help in
>> quickly
>> throwing up nodes? I know once you had a node up and running your
>> could make
>> an iso image and blast it onto a hard drive and then manually config
>> things
>> like IP etc. Just curious what you had in mind?
>
>MSC.Linux is a distro I'm looking into {they use OSCAR software}
>for a distro. Rolling my own cluster-distro would be a good learning
>experience, but the amount of time would be stagering.
>
>Depending on the amount of memory and harddisk space I can get a hold
>of we could get a hard drive for each node but it lookes as if that
>might not happen. I'm still leaning toward the RootNFS route {although
>going this route will hurt the network} but the more I think about it
>the more I dislike it.
>
>iso image blasting you say? humm...
>do you mean for updateing or inital install?
>
>Manual config is a definate way to go.
>
>any comments or suggestions?
>
>
>
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