[Beowulf] Diskless Phi node installs?

[Christopher Samuel]

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On 06/05/13 17:31, Olli-Pekka Lehto wrote:

> In the meantime I've been planning to do away with the RPMs 
> completely and manually organizing the files into node-local and 
> non-local items: With all the non-local files mounted via NFS and 
> symlinked to /opt/intel and the local ones directly on the compute 
> node filesystem image.

I did think about that, but it's a lot of work to automate and as the
nodes have 256GB of RAM I think I'm willing to live with it in RAM as
I can then use an NFS root on the Phi's (which have only 8GB of RAM).

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 Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
 VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
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