Scyld, local access to nodes, and master node as compute node

[Brian C Merrell]

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Sean Dilda wrote:

>
> You do this through bpsh.  The slave nodes are to run compute jobs, not
> interactive login sessions, so you really shouldn't need to run an
> interactive shell on them.  If you need to do some admin work that
> requires you to run stuff on the slave nodes, you can always bpsh all
> the individual commands to the slave node.
>

Hmmm.  It's fairly important for them to be able to rlogin to each
machine.  They really want to be able to get to each box and run programs
a certain way.  Is it possible to set up a custom install on each machine
that still has the beowulf modifications (and can join the cluster) yet is
also an independent and full linux box?  Would I simply have to run
bpslave on a node to bring it into the cluster?

Thanks for the other info, BTW.

-brian

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