[Beowulf] clusters of beagles

[Lux, Jim (337C)]

The pack of Beagles do have local disk storage (there¹s a 2GB flash on
board with a Debian image that it boots from).

The LittleFe depends on the BCDD (i.e. ³CD rom with cluster image²,
actually a USB stick) which is the sort of thing I was hoping for, but it
is x86.
OTOH, maybe that¹s a pattern to start with.  the BCDD also runs out of
RAM, which may or may not be a good model.

An interesting challenge




On 1/27/17, 11:42 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Hamilton, Scott"
<beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org on behalf of scott.hamilton at atos.net> wrote:

>I believe the Rocks distro will work on the Beagles with very little
>modification as long as you have local disk storage on the Beagles.  In
>my experience most people who use Beagles and other single board
>computers use network boot images on the main board and do not use any
>local storage which is not a use case for Rocks.  It is highly likely
>that the methods used for the littlefe clusters would work great for a
>cluster of Beagles.  The clusters of Rasp-Pi boards are difficult to
>automate because even network booting requires formatting a custom SD
>card so it becomes just as much work as doing it by hand.
>
>Scott
>
>Scott Hamilton
>Solution Architect II
>Atos Big Data & Security - NAO
>(573)324-7124
>scott.hamilton at atos.net
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hahn
>Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 11:13 AM
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>Subject: Re: [Beowulf] clusters of beagles
>
>> But nobody is doing a rocks or warewulf for beagles yet.
>
>eh?  what's unique about them that makes traditional techniques not apply?
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