desktop interface at least for the master node. then the others can pxe boot from the master. i know this becomes problematic the large the cluster. for now i think starting like this would be good to have a distro for people such as myself who are quite new to clustering.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Jakob Oestergaard <<a href="mailto:jakob@unthought.net">jakob@unthought.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:56:31PM +0200, Jon Aquilina wrote:<br>
> ive been thinking bout building an easy to use cluster distro based on<br>
> kubuntu where would the ideal place for me to start. the desktop interface<br>
> the kernel?<br>
<br>
</div>How about "neither" ? :)<br>
<br>
I don't mean to discourage you, but I can't help but being a little bit sceptic<br>
about the purpose and usefulness of all of this.<br>
<br>
Honestly, if I were to install a new cluster, I'd worry about<br>
*) Libraries (ATLAS and gmp for the hardware, a good MPI)<br>
*) Job control server and tools (SGE?)<br>
*) Proper single-sign on (Kerberos authentication) and generally proper<br>
integration between the systems (I don't know if NFSv4 works these days, but<br>
if it does that would be truly fantastic coupled with automount and a<br>
directory for authorization and mount maps)<br>
<br>
Possibly if it was for development of simulation tools and not production runs<br>
of "finished" tools, I'd want development tools like valgrind, binutils and a<br>
good new gcc suite.<br>
<br>
I'm sure the good people on this list have more requirements.<br>
<br>
The kernel should "just work". Outside of having a properly patched actually<br>
working kernel configured for server usage (which many distros, including<br>
ubuntu, have these days) with the proper NUMA awareness and bit width (64<br>
of'em) to deal with the hardware, there's not much won from fiddling with it.<br>
Really, if your code spends its time in the kernel, you have much bigger<br>
problems :)<br>
<br>
And desktop interface? On a cluster what for?<br>
<br>
<br>
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/ jakob<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jonathan Aquilina
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