"David Mathog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The biggest problem with chain methods is that it is difficult to > recover if something breaks in the middle during the transfer. My > cluster is only 20 nodes and it has not been an issue, but on a 2000 > node cluster it probably would be. It is of course also important that > all of the nodes in the distribution chain have sufficient free network > and CPU resources. If there are any slow nodes the whole chain will be > slow since the slow nodes will be rate limiting.
Is there a reason bittorrent isn't suited to this application? -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
