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

[Eric Thibodeau]

Le 20 Novembre 2005 00:22, Stéphane Lacasse a écrit :
> Checkout Adélie Linux, which is based on Gentoo.  AFAIK, they require
> that you customize a stock Gentoo install.  Be warned that they provide
> very few (if any) support.

They actually provide nothing, seem to be inactive and are most probably 
"controlled" by Cyberlogic, which is a commercial clustering service (this 
smells like an open source project gone closed...).

> For this reason I way prefer Rocks Cluster
> that is really a breeze to install, but they do not have the bootp
> paradigm...

Which comes back to my original post that started the thred. I wat to make an 
entirely _Gentoo_ based cluster. A good reason for this is that Gentoo 
well...is Gentoo, don't want/need to start the philosophical debate on why 
Gentoo is better than RHE(WS), CentOS and all on which Rocks is based... 

> each node is a full image on it's own, but managmenet is
> centralized thrue the headnode.

O_o.... now _that_ is something I would call inefficient. I can't immagine a 
1024 node cluster running off 1024 images stored on one server.

In any case, we're getting Off Topic, I wanna make this a Gentoo Kluster (C) 
(one may inster Kick Ass somewhere in there :P ). Moreover, I am _mandated_ 
to do this as part of my masters _and_ document this.... Document which I 
will of course make available to the Gentoo community. I'm almost thinking of 
looking onto either an ebuild or even a special "profile" for making the 
node's ROOT image (with a modified baselayout)....

So, as always, if anyone can help out in either pointing to documents or 
sharing experience, I would be more than glad to put this together and really 
put Gentoo on the HPC map.

Eric

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