[gentoo-cluster] Gentoo clustering "à la" www.clustermatic.org (PXE booted nodes)

[Eric Thibodeau]

I would have scanned the mailling list for this but never found the search 
engine for it...

As the title says, I would love to see a Gentoo clustering solution based on 
the www.clustermatic.org/www.ltsp.org approach (basically, PXE booted OS). In 
fact, work on this would open up Gentoo to both clustering and LTSP usage. 
Most of the work that needs to be done, if I am not mistaken, is to create a 
Gentoo environment which is NFS bootable as done with LTSP. We could then 
"easily" manage the tolls and utilities available on the slave nodes by using 
portage. Obviously, there is also some kernel tweaking involved but we can 
start from some previous work done in that aera in all cases.

I am actually asked to build a Gentoo based cluster next semester and I would 
definately like to build it to be as flexible and scalable as possible. I 
believe that the above approach fits these requirements quite well. So I'm 
opened to any suggestions for this project. Obviously, I'll document this and 
attempt to make the procedure as accessible to anyone as possible.

Future work would probably be to seamlessly integrate OpenPBS into such a 
PXE-able environment to enable it to reboot/configure nodes as required for 
given tasks/profiles.

Thanks,

Eric Thibodeau
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