Is anyone using AutoYast2 to build cluster systems?
Hi Folks: A customer has asked us to look into building their Opteron cluster using SuSE. Before I port my old AutoInst tools, I wanted to see if AutoYast2 is used and ok for this task. Basically I want to be able to PXE boot Opteron nodes into SuSE 9.x installation. There are additional things I would like to do with IP address assignment and databases, but I'll be happy with a working PXE at first. Any thoughts? I looked over the AutoYast2 documents, and would like to hear from folks who have used it. Also, I had heard of some sort of HPC version of the distribution (stripped down of things not relevant to clusters). Anyone know about this? Is it real? If so, who can I speak to about it? Thanks. Joe landman@scalableinformatics.com
Joe Landman <landman@scalableinformatics.com> writes:
Hi Folks: A customer has asked us to look into building their Opteron cluster using SuSE. Before I port my old AutoInst tools, I wanted to see if AutoYast2 is used and ok for this task. Basically I want to be able to PXE boot Opteron nodes into SuSE 9.x installation. There are additional things I would like to do with IP address assignment and databases, but I'll be happy with a working PXE at first.
Any thoughts? I looked over the AutoYast2 documents, and would like to hear from folks who have used it. Also, I had heard of some sort
Since this is architecture independend I would ask on the more generic suse-linux email list instead of this one.
of HPC version of the distribution (stripped down of things not relevant to clusters). Anyone know about this? Is it real? If so, who can I speak to about it?
We have made a special deal with Cray so that Red Storm will run with an adopted version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server - but there's no HPC version per se but their might be special prices for large HPC clusters using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 01:08:25AM -0400, Joe Landman wrote:
A customer has asked us to look into building their Opteron cluster using SuSE. Before I port my old AutoInst tools, I wanted to see if AutoYast2 is used and ok for this task. Basically I want to be able to PXE boot Opteron nodes into SuSE 9.x installation. There are additional things I would like to do with IP address assignment and databases, but I'll be happy with a working PXE at first.
See http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/ Or ask on suse-autoinstall@suse.com or better read the archives of that list first. Most likely all your questions have been already answered there. -Andi
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Andi Kleen
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