[Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes

[Eric Shook]

Not to diverge this conversation, but has anyone had any experience 
using this pxe boot / nfs model with a rhel variant?  I have been 
wanting to do a nfs root or ramdisk model for some-time but our software 
stack requires a rhel base so Scyld and Perceus most likely will not 
work (although I am still looking into both of them to make sure)

Thanks for any help,
Eric Shook

Buccaneer for Hire. wrote:
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>> I agree with what Joe says about a few hundred nodes being the time you 
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> I have started to explore the possibility of using this technology because I would really like to see us with the ability to change OSs and OS Personalities as needed.  The question I have is with 2000+ compute nodes what kind of infrastructure do I need to support this?
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