[Beowulf] USB flash drive bootable distro to check cluster health.

[Andrew Latham]

Ugh, first email was reply to only poster...

https://www.stresslinux.org/sl/ is an example of hardware validation.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 7:00 AM Richard Chang <rchang.lists at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I would like to know if we have or can make( or prepare) a USB bootable OS
> that we can boot in a cluster and its nodes to test all its functionality.
>
> The purpose of this is to boot a new or existing cluster to check its
> health, including Infiniband network,  any cards, local hard disks, memory
> etc, so that I don't have to disturb the existing OS and its configuration.
>
> If possible, it would be nice to boot the compute nodes from the master
> node.
>
> Anyone knows of any pre-existing distribution that will do the job ? Or
> know how to do it with Centos or Ubuntu ?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard.
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