[Beowulf] Diskless cluster provisioning/installation

Chris Samuel samuel at unimelb.edu.au
Thu Nov 5 15:52:54 PST 2015


On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 05:15:10 PM Matthew Wallis wrote:

> xCAT is still fairly popular.

This is what we use here on our IBM and Lenovo gear (and previously our SGI 
gear too) for statelite (diskless nodes booting RAMdisk with NFS mounts for 
certain files & directories that we want to preserve information in such as 
GPFS config, Slurm logs, etc).

http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_Linux_Statelite/

All the best,
Chris
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