Re: news from the Debian Beowulf project?

Adam C Powell IV a écrit :
> Greetings,
> 
> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 09:35 +0200, karel lang wrote:
>> hello,
>> i'd like to ask, if there are some howto's or materials like that of 
>> newer date about installing and maintaining the Beowulf project on 
>> Debian Linux.
> 
> As far as I know, the most current Debian-specific howtos are on the
> Debian Wiki: start at http://wiki.debian.org/?DebianBeowulf .  There are
> many Debian-specific enhancements such as update-cluster, FAI, dsh, etc.
> which make facilitate cluster management on Debian.  There is of course
> still room for improvement, e.g. generating dhcp server config files
> using update-cluster (bug 156810); ideas and patches are always welcome.
> 
> Unfortunately, since the Beowulf Wiki pages were written (mostly by
> yours truly), the diskless package has been orphaned, so that section is
> valid through sarge but not for etch.  Would someone be interested in
> redoing that section for lessdisks -- or in re-introducing diskless?
> (Though the latter will not help with etch.)

Hello,

I would suggest to have a look at Daniel Baumann & all work on 
debian-live [1] before (re)starting any work on {less}disks{less} packages.

The infrastructure (debian-live + etch initrd + unionfs) provided to 
build live cd makes it trivial to build diskless environnements. See the 
wiki for the technical informations.

As debian-live is here to stay, regrouping human effort there seems more 
   effective than splitting it over several overlapping package.

@+,

	Fab

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive?highlight=%28live%29


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