[Gluster-devel] GlusterHPC and EP objectives

[Amar S. Tumballi]

Also in GlusterHPC, we configure few of the cluster
monitoring/scheduling packages. It can also be used to only configure
HPC applications on all the cluster nodes.

-Amar Tumballi

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:13:48PM -0700, Susumu Urata (Technocross) wrote:
> 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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