Lloyd Brown wrote:
>  
> Then again, before we had the cool bittorrent-based installer at work,
> we were still able to install up to 50 or 60 nodes at a time, just off
> the head node's 2 7200 RPM SCSI hard drives in a hardware RAID-1.  So
> you're right; it shouldn't be too bad. 
>
>   
Just to clarify, though, when we did that many at a time, the install
server really struggled, and we had a significant failure rate. 
Generally we limited it to 15 or 20 at a time.  The bittorrent installer
ended up making a huge difference.


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Lloyd Brown
Systems Administrator
Fulton Supercomputing Lab
Brigham Young University
http://marylou.byu.edu


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