On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 00:17 +0000, Stuart Tanner wrote:

Dear All

I am looking to build a small beowulf cluster running openSUSE 11.4 during the summer my concept is to reclaim older pentium 4's and put the together so they are running as one.

I would then like to enable LTSP and XRDP to allow thin clients to harness their power as a virtual desktop.

I have found reports on how this was done using an old laptop with 128mb of ram as a thin client booting into kiwi-ltsp and openSUSE.

Could somebody point me towards any blogs or journals that have been written on the subject I am researching this over the next 12 weeks looking to start building in June.

Install all of kiwi. The latest release is in:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/Appliances/

Then look at the doc for kiwi (/usr/share/doc/packages/kiwi/kiwi.pdf - comes with the kiwi-doc package). Specifically chapter 10 on "PXE Image - Thin Clients". LTSP is one implementation of that type of image. But there is much more you can do.

We use kiwi to set up a number of opensuse images that boot via pxe and form our version of a cluster/cloud/jboc that we use in image processing and other systems. Works very well.

Also. look at suse studio (www.susestudio.com). It is a web wrapper (quite a powerful one at that) around kiwi that lets you make all kinds of images.

Yours sincerely,

Roger Oberholtzer

OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST

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