We have some contributors documenting Perceus as we speak. The
documentation effort will be posted shortly (I even had a quickstart
guide that was also just forwarded to me by a gracious user).
Basically we are aware of the documentation "issues" and they are
being resolved. Also, I will make myself available for helping anyone
implement Perceus that will agree to exchange the help for
documentation. Not to be read as free consulting, but I am very
understanding to the fact that you can't RTFM without the FM. ;)
Perceus can deal with a great deal of heterogeneous operating system
images, and is capable for ia32 and x86_64. I believe some people use
WareCAT (Warewulf+IBM's xCAT=WareCat) on ia64 very successfully, but
I am not too familiar with the solution.
Good luck with your decision!
Greg
On Jan 23, 2007, at 7:30 AM, Miguel Óscar Bernabeu i Llinares wrote:
Hi all,
I'm new to the list, so let me introduce myself: I work as a
researcher
in the Technical University of Valencia (Spain). I've been using
Beowulf
Clusters for several years, but I've got little experience in the
installation and administration of them.
We are planning to integrate some legacy hardware (Pentium IV and Xeon
two-processors) with brand new hardware (Itanium II Montecito SMP
boards) in order to build an heterogeneous cluster.
I'm interested in using a middleware like Warewulf, Perceus, Oscar,
Rocks, ... to reduce installation and maintenance overhead, since we
must focus in research tasks. I've been reading some webs and papers
about how dealing with heterogeneity in Warewulf, Perceus and
Oscar, but
none of them seem to be the best solution: Oscar forces me to use a
ia64
master node
( http://www.mail-archive.com/oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net/
msg06075.html ), while Perceus is not properly documented AFAIK.
Does anybody successfully configured a cluster like this? Any
suggestion?
Regards.
--
Miquel Óscar Bernabeu i Llinares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Department of Information Systems and Computation.
Technical University of Valencia. Spain.
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