[Beowulf] Gentoo in the HPC environment

[Christopher Samuel]

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On 01/07/14 13:48, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:

> What kind of disk setup do you have on the master node? There is
> only so much one master can take in terms of netbooting before you
> see performance degridation

All the nodes boot the same image file, so it's actually the NIC that
tends to be the choke point.  Our IBM systems boot over 10gigE
adapters so we don't see an issue there, but our older SGI system is
over gigE so we boot those in sets of 30 nodes or so.

All the best,
Chris
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 Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
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