Glen Gardner wrote:
I've recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a 12 node diskless cluster.
I've got a couple of observations to share for those who might be
interested...
The remarkable thing I notice about the FreeBSD setup is that with all
nodes booting the same image (including the head node), system
maintenance is really simple. It also makes me think that a single
system image using freeware operating systems is a worthy and practical
goal with FreeBSD, but that Fedora Core is not even close to being an
out of the
I agree re. the single system image. Our clusters work that way, and you
have the choice of running in a ramdisk mode
as you have done, or using the local disk for tmp/swap, or a
conventional hard drive install.
Fedora isn't the only kid on the block, and given the short support
lifetime I would recommend against using it in a cluster.
Fedora is clearly aimed and billed as a cutting edge distro, which will
have a release every six months.
Most of our clusters have SuSE linux installed, which runs very well on
Opteron/EMT64.
Our commercial customers tend to go for Redhat Enterprise or SuSE SLES,
for compatibility and support of ISV codes.
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