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Łukasz wrote: |
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> I've got a question for experienced: there's a need on my univ, to |
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> build a cluster. We may be given a bunch of PCs of similar |
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> configuration to put them together into high performance cluster for |
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> physicists. However, these PCs are supposed to be connected to the |
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> external NFS as workstations, and students be allowed to login (on |
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> their old accounts) and work on their projects. Is it possible to do |
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> it with Gentoo? Is it possible to administrate _all_ nodes at once? |
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> How would look emerge -u world, for all computers? Where to look to |
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> more information? |
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Sounds like you might want to look into Condor [1]. There is an ebuild |
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request [2], but nobody has written an ebuild yet. |
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The difference between Gentoo and other distributions would primarily be |
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in package management, which would be unrelated to Condor since we don't |
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package it yet. You would probably set up a single build server and run |
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emerge with the '--buildpkg' or '--buildpkgonly' flag, then set |
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PORTAGE_BINHOST (see make.conf.example) on the other machines to |
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retrieve binary packages from the build server. |
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There are a number of tools to make it easier to run commands on |
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clusters and keep them in sync, such as clusterssh, pdsh [3], pssh, c3, |
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csync2, cfengine, rsync and others. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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1. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ |
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2. https://bugs.gentoo.org/60281 |
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3. https://bugs.gentoo.org/81171 |
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