[Gluster-devel] GlusterHPC and EP objectives

[Susumu Urata (Technocross)]

I would like to confirm the following.

1.  GlusterHPC objective is to distribute the master image to all 
the clients so that the each computing node has the same image to 
perform the HPC jobs.
This is why the Gluster collects the client network information and 
then distributes the image to everyone at the same time.  Once the 
image is distributed, the master and the clients can be booted up 
normally.

2.  GlusterEP objective is to capture the individual client node 
image and store it to the master node so that the each client node 
can be rebooted with Gluster client to provision the system whenever 
the local boot image is lost or add a new node.  Provisioning allows 
the stored image to be loaded to the local disk based on the 
username.  This way, the client node images can be managed centrally 
and no more loading of OS with a CD is required.

Susumu Urata
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