[Beowulf] PXE boot with X7DWT-INF IB onboard card

[Jon Tegner]

How are you planning to boot your nodes?

I have used perceus (http://www.perceus.org/) and was happy with it. 
There is also Warewulf (http://warewulf.lbl.gov or 
http://hpc.admin-magazine.com/Articles/Warewulf-Cluster-Manager-Master-and-Compute-Nodes) 
which I haven't used.

Anyone who has compared the two?

Regards,

/jon


On 11/13/2012 04:45 AM, Duke Nguyen wrote:
> Thanks for all suggestions and comments. Looks like we will go for a
> gigabyte switch and boot nodes over Gb. Not to mention that this
> solution is cheaper than putting disks onto nodes, I prefer this option
> so that we do not have to manually configure and install each node (with
> disks inside or a usb or an external CD drive).
>
> Bests,
>
> D.
>
> On 11/12/12 9:41 PM, Mark Hahn wrote:
>>>   * if PXE server with Infiniband is impossible, then it is OK with a
>>> gigabyte connection? Or should we go for 16 disks for these 16 clients
>> booting is rare and almost trivial, IO-wise.  there's no reason you
>> shouldn't be able to boot several hundred clients over Gb.
>>
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