On 1/27/17, 11:40 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Lux, Jim (337C)" <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org on behalf of james.p....@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>Are there peculiarities of Rpi/Beagle (stemming from ARM rather than x86, >and the default distro) that makes them incompatible? I don¹t know. >Rocks, for instance, is CentOS based - Beagles come with Debian.. > >Actually, not having to ³build my own cluster² for a surprisingly long >time, I¹m totally unaware of what¹s out there for ³small demo cluster >install².. >For instance, there¹s no CDROM drive on most of these things <grin> >And net boot might be a bit different (they don¹t have the nominal x86 PC >bios). Andrew posted a link about net booting Rpi > >It might be easiest to figure out how to put a distro of some sort on an >SD card and sneaker net that around (you¹re not going to be building a >1000 node Beagle cluster (or is that a pack of Beagles, and a lug or >bushel of Raspberries) > >I should have some BBGs showing up in the mail today or tomorrow.. The advantage of some of those earlier cluster distro’s is that literally, they were plug and play - you could get a bunch of Pcs, hook them up to the network, stick in the CDROM, and an hour later, have your cluster running - no compiler and glibc version issues, etc. because the software needed was already compiled with the requisite Linux, etc. > _______________________________________________ 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
