Gus Correa wrote:

I really wish I could get away with using ROCKS as there would be such a
greater reach back for me over SUSE. Right now I am exploring AutoYast to
push the OS out to the compute nodes,

This is what we use for building SuSE clusters. It is actually not painful. We have operational autoyast.xml for 10.x and 9.3.

Basically you boot it with a pointer to the autoyast file and get out of the way.

[...]

That is true.
Tell bosses they are asking you to reinvent the Rocks wheel.

Hmmm .... Rocks isn't everything, and there are a number of criticisms that certainly could be leveled at the system. I won't go there right now, but it is worth noting, just as with Linux != Redhat, Linux Cluster != Rocks clusters.



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