Hi all,
I have just rolled out a Scientific Linux (Redhat clone) cluster of 20
nodes plus controller that runs torque for batching and uses a lot of MPI.
My problem is that I periodically get asked to include some library or
program to help out with some ones research code, and often it is
I used cfengine to do such things (and much more).
Let me know if you need an example configuration as a starting point.
As far as I know cfengine is not part of RHEL, so you need to install
that third party RPM first :)
Puppet and other similar tools can do this for you as well.
Regards,
On
On Tuesday 14 August 2012 21:59:00 Steven Tucker wrote:
I have just rolled out a Scientific Linux (Redhat clone) cluster of
20 nodes plus controller that runs torque for batching and uses a
lot of MPI. My problem is that I periodically get asked to include
some library or program to help out
Just get it all under puppet (puppetlabs.com).
On Aug 14, 2012 9:55 PM, Steven Tucker tux...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Hi all,
I have just rolled out a Scientific Linux (Redhat clone) cluster of 20
nodes plus controller that runs torque for batching and uses a lot of MPI.
My problem is that I
Oddly I actually boot a large cluster off a diskless image, with a local HD
for file caching/work space. The boot image is relatively small
(500MB). Yes this uses a little ram for the root file system on the
'diskless' node, but provides a single point of change and a reboot to
update the
For fans of linux :
http://hackaday.com/2012/08/14/turning-a-keyboard-into-a-computer-with-a-raspberry-pi/
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Hi all,
thanks for the suggestions, they were awesome.
Since writing that email Puppet has been suggested to me as well, though
I will go look into all the suggestions.
Another option I am looking at is Spacewalk, which I may end up going
with as I just found out that some other Redhat
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:45:07AM +1000, Steven Tucker wrote:
thanks for the suggestions, they were awesome.
Since writing that email Puppet has been suggested to me as well,
though I will go look into all the suggestions.
Another vote for puppet. The more you use it, the more useful
it gets.
A few days I sent the following appeal
I have just upgraded my old Dell desktop from Ubuntu 10.10 to 12.04
using Canonical's official disk. So far I am the only user .
When I log in (as myself) I see the standard wall paper but no icons
menu bars task bars etc.'
That immediate issue is