Re: naked machines

On 22 September 2005 at 18:54, Moreno Baricevic wrote:
| On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 13:07, massimiliano cialdi wrote:
| > is it possible to run acluster in which some machines are "naked"?
| > I mean a computer with only mother board (with an integrated NIC to
| > boot up), cpu and ram; without any mass storage device (such hard
| > disk, floppy or CD), keyboard, mouse and graphic card.
[...]
| ...I'm not sure, but ClusterKnoppix should already supply such system
| and it needs no effort to buildup a test cluster configured in this way,
| give it a try.

Yes, clusterKnoppix and Quantian (which builds on top of clusterKnoppix)
support his out of the box.  With Quantian, you also get over 6 gb
(uncompressed) of software ready to deploy on the cluster.

Dirk

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