Leonardo Machado Moreira wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to create a cluster with only two machines. > > The server will be a Linux machine, an Arch Linux distribution to be > more specific. The slave machine will be a Windows 7 machine.
While may be technically possible, why would you want to do this? If this is for your work, computers are so cheap that from a business point of view, it makes more sense to just by an additional computer and put Arch Linux on it than to waste your time trying to make this work. If you in it the technical challenge and sense of adventure, then good for you, and good luck. > I have found it is possible, but I was looking and have found that each > machine on the cluster must have the same user for the cluster. I would recommend having both systems use the same LDAP server or Active Directory (AD) server. I have made Linux systems use AD for LDAP/Kerberos servers. It's not that hard, but you need AD to support Posix/Unix attributes like shell, home directory, GECOS field. Most new versions of AD have this built in, earlier versions require an additional package Microsoft Services for Unix (also know as SFU or msSFU, or MSSFU) that can be downloaded from Microsoft. I wouldn'd try this unless you are very well-versed in LDAP and Kerberos administration. On RH-based Linux distros, /etc/ldap.conf should already has the necessary configuration for SFU in it, you just need to uncomment it. I never set up windows systems as LDAP clients. > > I was wondering how would I deal with it with the windows machine ? You'd have to have a windows-specific binary, for one. > > Do I have do implement a specific program in it? Would it found the rsh ? See above. SFU might come with a Wibndows implementation, but you'd have problems with the fact the programs might have different names, and would probably have different paths. That could confuse the queuing system (if your using one), and/or your MPI implementation. > > Thanks in advance! > > Leonardo Machado Moreira _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
