Let's say I had 2 high-performance workstations kicking around (dual 6-core, 2.4GHz, xeon processors; 128 GB RAM each; etc) and a smaller workstation (single Xeon 4-core, 3.5GHz and 16 GB RAM) available and I wanted to cluster them together with Mesos. What is the best way of doing this? My thought was that the smaller workstation would be at my desk (the other two would be in the same office) because it would be used for development work and some general tasks but would also be the master node of the mesos cluster (note that HA isn't a requirement here). This workstation would have two NICs, one connected to our institutional network and the other making up the private network between the clusters.
Is this even doable? Normally you would have some sort of client submitting to the Master but in this case the Master node would be serving up multiple roles. The other workstations would probably not have access to the institutional network, so all software updates and the like would have to be piped through the master workstation. There would also be a relatively large NAS device connected into this network as well. Thoughts and suggestions welcome, even if it is to tell me I'm crazy. I'm building a small scale compute "cluster" that is fairly limited by budget (and the needs aren't high either) and it may not be able to be located in a datacenter, hence the cluster of workstations type setup. [NSHA_colour_logo.jpg] Dan Gaston, PhD Clinical Laboratory Bioinformatician Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Division of Hematopathology Rm 511, 5788 University Ave. Halifax, NS B3H 1V8
