[gentoo-cluster] Gentoo Clustering LiveCD/DVD (Google SoC 2008 project)

[Eric Thibodeau]

Hello all,

    As some of you may already know, I am working on a clustering 
livedvd. Although a livecvd is flashy and all, my efforts are geared 
towards making ebuilds and meta-ebuilds that ease setting up a freshly 
installed stage3 system into a Master Beowulf server with 
PXE+tftp+NFSroot booted nodes. My progressing work is available on the 
unofficial Gentoo overlay server (http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/ 
, direct link being: 
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/clustering-livecd.git;a=summary). 
Everything needed to create the livedvd as well as the NFSroot images 
(notably catalyst specs and custom ebuilds) is available there. I also 
make the resulting/progressing work available in my personal web server 
http://wiki.neuralbs.com/~kyron/soc2008/ but, please, don't download the 
iso image unless you've asked me first since it's not complete work and 
is not "functional" per say (the current image does not contain the 
node's nfsroot and the auto-configuration scripts are still being worked on)

    So, this means it's now the perfect time to send me your wish list. 
Since we're all interested in seeing Gentoo "sell" as a powerful 
platform for HPC, it would be nice if some of you could give me good 
examples of apps that give some nice "marketable" GUI results ;) as well 
as more seriously used HPC apps (less the marketing fluff).

    Apart from the wish list, I think a custom theme would also be nice. 
So a bootsplah, I heard that _really_ sells with the CEOs, as well as 
some other nifty fb stuff would be willingly integrated into the livedvd ;)

That's it for now, just wanted to make an official thread since I seem 
to have forgotten to do so ;)

Eric Thibodeau (aka kyron on freenode.net)
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