How are you planning to boot your nodes? I have used perceus (http://www.perceus.org/) and was happy with it. There is also Warewulf (http://warewulf.lbl.gov or http://hpc.admin-magazine.com/Articles/Warewulf-Cluster-Manager-Master-and-Compute-Nodes) which I haven't used.
Anyone who has compared the two? Regards, /jon On 11/13/2012 04:45 AM, Duke Nguyen wrote: > Thanks for all suggestions and comments. Looks like we will go for a > gigabyte switch and boot nodes over Gb. Not to mention that this > solution is cheaper than putting disks onto nodes, I prefer this option > so that we do not have to manually configure and install each node (with > disks inside or a usb or an external CD drive). > > Bests, > > D. > > On 11/12/12 9:41 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: >>> * if PXE server with Infiniband is impossible, then it is OK with a >>> gigabyte connection? Or should we go for 16 disks for these 16 clients >> booting is rare and almost trivial, IO-wise. there's no reason you >> shouldn't be able to boot several hundred clients over Gb. >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
