On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 06:43:05 +0100, you wrote: >My own thoughts on HPC for a tightly coupled, on premise setup is that we >need a lightweight OS on the nodes, which does the bare minimum. No general >purpose utilities, no GUIS, nothing but network and storage. And container >support.
One of the latest attempts at this is Fedora CoreOS, the merger of Fedora Atomic and CoreOS (which Red Hat bought). https://coreos.fedoraproject.org/ >The cluster will have the normal login nodes of course but will present >itself as a 'black box' to run containers. >But - given my herd analogy above - will we see that? Or will we see >private Openstack setups? Maybe, Red Hat appears to be moving in that direction as well with a Red Hat CoreOS offering with OpenShift though how it all ends up is yet to be seen I suspect. _______________________________________________ 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
