Rocks clusters

[Michael Creel]

For those of you who would like a permanently installed cluster, Rocks is one of the leading alternatives. An article is available at http://www.linux.com/feature/143260

[Geeza]

However there is an issue with rocks as it needs hard drives for each node ($).

What we could do with is a Pelican/Rocks hybrid. Installable but sets up diskless nodes. Cheaper and easier to administer.

Ideas anyone?

[Rahul8590]

How about mpich2 ,many fedora based systems are working on mpich2.
or taking some packages chaos Linux distribution .. (its only 6MB ) and incorporating into pelican.

[Michael Creel]

There is a project in the works to make an installable distro that works similar to PelicanHPC. I expect that it will make an initial release in the next few months. Another alternative is Warewulf/Perceus (sp?). I don't have experience with it, but I think that it is used in some pretty big installations.

[Geeza]

Cheers, i'll keep my eyes open for any developments.