<div>Yes, have been thinking along these lines, specially intrigued about using ram disk.<br /></div><div>
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Do you happen to have any relevant links describing how this can be done?<br /></div><div>
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Thanks!<br /></div><div>
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/jon<br /></div><div><br /></div><p>On November 6, 2015 at 5:49:00 am +01:00, Stu Midgley <sdm900@gmail.com> wrote:<br /></p><blockquote type="cite"><div class="oneComWebmail-mail"><div class="oneComWebmail-body"><div>Write your own. I personally find all the packaged systems way too<br /></div><div>stifling and don't do what you want, so you end up bending how you<br /></div><div>want to work.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It is relatively simple to setup pxe booting and network booting from<br /></div><div>nfs or lustre or any other shared file system (or just rsync down the<br /></div><div>image to a ram disk).<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>At least then, you have a bash script that you can tune to do what you want.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Once you have a booted image, pdsh is about all you need.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Novosielski, Ryan<br /></div><div><<a href="mailto:novosirj@ca.rutgers.edu">novosirj@ca.rutgers.edu</a>> wrote:<br /></div><blockquote><div>Another vote here for Warewulf. Good stuff. Easy to use, but not lacking any features I need.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>--<br /></div><div>____ *Note: UMDNJ is now Rutgers-Biomedical and Health Sciences*<br /></div><div>|| \\UTGERS |---------------------*O*---------------------<br /></div><div>||_// Biomedical | Ryan Novosielski - Senior Technologist<br /></div><div>|| \\ and Health | <a href="mailto:novosirj@rutgers.edu">novosirj@rutgers.edu</a> - 973/972.0922 (2x0922)<br /></div><div>|| \\ Sciences | OIRT/High Perf & Res Comp - MSB C630, Newark<br /></div><div>`'<br /></div><div>________________________________________<br /></div><div>From: Beowulf [<a href="mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org">beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org</a>] On Behalf Of Vaughn Clinton [<a href="mailto:vclinton@msn.com">vclinton@msn.com</a>]<br /></div><div>Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 9:40 PM<br /></div><div>To: Chris Samuel; <a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org">beowulf@beowulf.org</a><br /></div><div>Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Diskless cluster provisioning/installation<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>XCat is long in the tooth now. I'd take serious look at WareWulf. I've used WW and was happy with it:<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a target="_blank" href="http://warewulf.lbl.gov/trac">http://warewulf.lbl.gov/trac</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><blockquote><div>From: <a href="mailto:samuel@unimelb.edu.au">samuel@unimelb.edu.au</a><br /></div><div>To: <a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org">beowulf@beowulf.org</a><br /></div><div>Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 10:52:54 +1100<br /></div><div>Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Diskless cluster provisioning/installation<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 05:15:10 PM Matthew Wallis wrote:<br /></div><div><br /></div><blockquote>xCAT is still fairly popular.<br /></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>This is what we use here on our IBM and Lenovo gear (and previously our SGI<br /></div><div>gear too) for statelite (diskless nodes booting RAMdisk with NFS mounts for<br /></div><div>certain files & directories that we want to preserve information in such as<br /></div><div>GPFS config, Slurm logs, etc).<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a target="_blank" href="http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_Linux_Statelite/">http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_Linux_Statelite/</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>All the best,<br /></div><div>Chris<br /></div><div>--<br /></div><div>Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator<br /></div><div>VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative<br /></div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:samuel@unimelb.edu.au">samuel@unimelb.edu.au</a> Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545<br /></div><div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.vlsci.org.au/">http://www.vlsci.org.au/</a> http://twitter.com/vlsci<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>_______________________________________________<br /></div><div>Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing<br /></div><div>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit <a target="_blank" href="http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf">http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf</a><br /></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>_______________________________________________<br /></div><div>Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing<br /></div><div>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit <a target="_blank" href="http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf">http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf</a><br /></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>-- <br /></div><div>Dr Stuart Midgley<br /></div><div><a href="mailto:sdm900@sdm900.com">sdm900@sdm900.com</a><br /></div><div>_______________________________________________<br /></div><div>Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing<br /></div><div>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit <a target="_blank" href="http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf">http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf</a><br /></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div>