Question: Task Farm and Private Networks.

[Hoeffel, Thomas]

Hi,

I currently have a small cluster in which the slave nodes are on a private
network. It is used primarily as a task farm and not as a true parallel
machine. Only the master node sees our other systems  (which are on their
own switch). This casues problems with certain remote job submissions via
some commercial packages since they write both local temp files and scratch
temp files.

Question: What is the drawback to giving each slave it's own true IP address
and allowing them to NFS mount the same file systems as the master node?

Thanks





Thomas J. Hoeffel
Computational Chemistry
Chiron Corporation
4560 Horton St.
Emeryville, CA 94608
510.923.8346 office
510.923.2010 fax