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Eric Thibodeau wrote: |
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>I would have scanned the mailling list for this but never found the search |
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>engine for it... |
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>As the title says, I would love to see a Gentoo clustering solution based on |
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>the www.clustermatic.org/www.ltsp.org approach (basically, PXE booted OS). In |
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>fact, work on this would open up Gentoo to both clustering and LTSP usage. |
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>Most of the work that needs to be done, if I am not mistaken, is to create a |
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>Gentoo environment which is NFS bootable as done with LTSP. We could then |
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>"easily" manage the tolls and utilities available on the slave nodes by using |
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>portage. Obviously, there is also some kernel tweaking involved but we can |
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>start from some previous work done in that aera in all cases. |
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>I am actually asked to build a Gentoo based cluster next semester and I would |
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>definately like to build it to be as flexible and scalable as possible. I |
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>believe that the above approach fits these requirements quite well. So I'm |
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>opened to any suggestions for this project. Obviously, I'll document this and |
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>attempt to make the procedure as accessible to anyone as possible. |
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I have to setup such a (little) cluster as well and I am very interested |
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in a good documented Gentoo-based procedure. |
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Mathias |
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