Re: [OMPI users] cluster LiveCD

2008-08-08 Thread Abhishek K
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > [Off-list because it's off-topic] > > Thanks for the link. But from the website I can't quite tell what > exactly Perceus is, except for "the next generation" of the "de facto > standard". Do you have a link to a good explanation or archi

Re: [OMPI users] cluster LiveCD

2008-08-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[Off-list because it's off-topic] Thanks for the link. But from the website I can't quite tell what exactly Perceus is, except for "the next generation" of the "de facto standard". Do you have a link to a good explanation or architecture description? And in terms of de facto standards, isn't LT

Re: [OMPI users] cluster LiveCD

2008-08-07 Thread Michael Jennings
On Thursday, 07 August 2008, at 15:03:24 (-0400), Tim Mattox wrote: > I think a better approach than using NFS-root or LiveCDs is to use Perceus in > this situation, since it has been developed over many years to handle this > sort of thing (diskless/stateless beowulf clusters): > http://www.per

Re: [OMPI users] cluster LiveCD

2008-08-07 Thread Ben Payne
You are correct in assuming the Windows nodes are DHCP. However, while the cluster is in operation I can (if needed) remove the connection to the rest of the world at the switch. Then introducing a (new) DHCP server doesn't cause a conflict. I wouldn't want other computers on the network (that a

Re: [OMPI users] cluster LiveCD

2008-08-07 Thread Tim Mattox
I think a better approach than using NFS-root or LiveCDs is to use Perceus in this situation, since it has been developed over many years to handle this sort of thing (diskless/stateless beowulf clusters): http://www.perceus.org/ It leverages PXE booting so all you need to do on a per-node basis

Re: [OMPI users] cluster LiveCD

2008-08-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 17:01 -0500, Ben Payne wrote: > Hello. I am not sure if this is the correct list to ask this > question, so if you know of a more appropriate one please let me know. > > I think am looking for a LiveCD that supports MPI, specifically one > that has mpif90 built in, and can e

Re: [OMPI users] cluster LiveCD

2008-08-06 Thread Rainer Keller
Hi Ben, we created one bootable DVD based on Knoppix for our Parallel Tools Workshop at HLRS. It features Open MPI and various (open source) tools based on it using Oscar modules. Among the compilers it has gfortran-4.3, which Open MPI-1.2.6 is compiled against. We don't have automatic integra

Re: [OMPI users] cluster LiveCD

2008-08-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 5 August 2008 at 17:01, Ben Payne wrote: | Hello. I am not sure if this is the correct list to ask this | question, so if you know of a more appropriate one please let me know. | | I think am looking for a LiveCD that supports MPI, specifically one | that has mpif90 built in, and can easily m