diskless nodes? (was Re: Xbox clusters?)

Thomas Davis tadavis at lbl.gov
Mon Dec 10 10:40:57 PST 2001


"Walter B. Ligon III" wrote:
> 
> --------
> > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:11:44AM -0500, Velocet wrote:
> >
> > > I am sure a number of others' use
> > > of clusters also fit into this range, thus my wondering.
> >
> > Given the poor tone of both this discussion and the one about paying
> > more for nodes, most people are being quiet.
> >
> > greg
> 
> yup!
> 

Oh, I'm sure I could wade in here too..  two clusters, one 85 nodes
(Myricom 2k), another close to 400nodes.

And what we do, diskless just won't work.

We can take out almost any NFS server in a matter of minutes.

Oh, and don't ask what application..  We support over 18 different
areas, and the apps are just insane at times.  :)

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