2008/12/9 Joe Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Which tools do you have in mind? The Autoyast package that we have set up > for our customers installs the OS locally, as well as pdsh, ganglia, and > several other tools. Then in our finishing scripts which the autoyast.xml > file links to, we set up SGE, adjust NIS/mounts, ... > > As I indicated, we get operational compute nodes shortly after turning them > on. The current version of autoyast.xml + finishing scripts we have > constructed also builds a RAID0 for local scratch, uses xfs file systems for > root and scratch, installs OFED RPMs (on SuSE), updates the kernel to a late > model (2.6.23.14 or so) and does some sysctl tuning. > > That's how Streamline originally installed their clusters. Works fine - you do a generic SuSE install, and let the Autoyast tools do all the 'heavy lifting' then run a post-install script which integrates your nodes into the cluster, as Joe says by enabling NSI binding, copying across the batch startup script (yada yada...).
I agree with Joe this would probably be a good way forward for you.
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