Scyld CW4 is based on RHEL4 and also supported on Centos 4. That does not give you different operating systems though, just flexible deployment of RHEL4 based HPC compute nodes.
Note that we had to reimplement the PXE boot part to allow reasonable scaling. Michael -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Shook Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 11:28 AM To: Buccaneer for Hire. Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes Not to diverge this conversation, but has anyone had any experience using this pxe boot / nfs model with a rhel variant? I have been wanting to do a nfs root or ramdisk model for some-time but our software stack requires a rhel base so Scyld and Perceus most likely will not work (although I am still looking into both of them to make sure) Thanks for any help, Eric Shook Buccaneer for Hire. wrote: > [snip] > > >> I agree with what Joe says about a few hundred nodes being the time >> you would start to look closer at this approach. >> > > I have started to explore the possibility of using this technology because I would really like to see us with the ability to change OSs and OS Personalities as needed. The question I have is with 2000+ compute nodes what kind of infrastructure do I need to support this? > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. > http://new.mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription > (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
