Re: diskless machines for parallel processing?

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2007-02-14 02:41, tuxillo wrote:
> hi
> Well, I've got about 6 machines (4 PIII 900 and 2 PII 333). I've
> installed DF in one machine and 5 will boot via PXE and they will be
> diskless. I've choosen DF because this is going towards "native
> clustering". but, in what state is this project now? can I test whether
> my machines are in a cluster? how do I start and where?
> thanks a lot!

Not quite there yet, if you want to get an idea of where the project is 
and where it's going the recent interview with Matt at BSDTalk might be 
of interest [1] and [2]. There is also the mails to the kernel-list [3].

1. 
http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/02/bsdtalk098-dragonflybsd-developer.html
2. http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2007-02/msg00110.html
3. http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2007-02/

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Erik Wikström