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Have you tried using oneSIS for going diskless? |
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emerge -va onesis |
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Check out http://onesis.org for more info. |
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-JE |
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On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 15:04 -0400, Simon-Nicolas Roth wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> A small introduction: |
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> We currently own 2 small clusters. One with 42 opteron diskless nodes (adelie |
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> gentoo linux) and another one with 24 pentium 4 diskless nodes (based on |
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> Kyron's wiki http://wiki.neuralbs.com/index.php/Gentoo_Diskless_Client). |
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> We have seen a nice upgrade in perfomance when we changed the 24 nodes cluster |
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> from Redhat to Gentoo. |
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> The question: |
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> We are in discussion to make a cluster with around 1024 nodes for parallel |
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> scientific computing. I want to convince that Gentoo would be better on this |
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> cluster than RedHat! Most people around this project don't believe in Gentoo |
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> (obviously because they have never done anything with Gentoo). |
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> Does anyone have really solid arguments/articles/proofs about the performance |
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> of Gentoo on clusters to help me convice the RedHat guys? |
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> Thanks |
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> Simon |
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