On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 08:37:13AM -0700, Henning Fehrmann wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Coping a big file onto all nodes in a cluster is a rather common problem. > I would have thought that there might be a standard tool for > distributing the files in an efficient way. So far, I haven't found one. > > Assuming one has a network design which allows non blocking full duplex > wire-speed connections between N/2 pairs of nodes where N is the number > of nodes in the cluster. It is basically a non blocking coreswitch. > > In this case the following scheme would be convenient and rather simple: > > The file is placed on node n1 and one builds a chain of nodes n1 , n2 .... nN.
See Brent Chen's pcp at <http://www.theether.org/work.html> You'll want pcp, authd, and libe. Get gexec while you're at it... -- David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
