On Tue, Feb 11, 2020, at 9:31 AM, Skylar Thompson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 10:46:05PM -0800, Chris Samuel wrote: > > On 9/2/20 10:36 pm, Benson Muite wrote: > > > > > Take a look at the bootable cluster CD here: > > > http://www.littlefe.net/ > > > > From what I can see BCCD hasn't been updated for just over 5 years, and the > > last email on their developer list was Feb 2018, so it's likely a little out > > of date now. > > > > http://bccd.net/downloads > > > > http://bccd.net/pipermail/bccd-developers/ > > > > On the other hand their TRAC does list some ticket updates a few months ago, > > so perhaps there are things going on but Skylar needs more hands? > > > > https://cluster.earlham.edu/trac/bccd-ng/report/1?sort=created&asc=0&page=1 > > Wow, I had no idea people on the Beowulf list were still thinking of BCCD. > :) > > I've been working on a major BCCD update for a while now (modern Debian, > better node auto-detection) but a combination of life interference and a > shift in focus for the project to curriculum development has slowed me > down. > > At the end of the day, BCCD has three has three main goals: > > 1. Non-destructive in its default mode > 2. Simple ("just press enter") > 3. Ready with pedagogically-useful ("validated, verified, and accredited") > curriculum modules > > One thing I'm hoping can come out of this major update is to decouple the BCCD > from the underlying distribution, since that's been a barrier for some > people in using BCCD. That's just an aspiration right now, but we'll see > where it goes.
Can you give more details on how you expect to decouple it? > > I'll get off my soapbox and get back to work. :) > > -- > Skylar > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
