Fai as a Rocks substitute?

Adrian Gibanel Lopez agibanel at alumnes.udl.cat
Mon Jan 26 12:39:46 CET 2009


>>>>>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:48:13 +0100 (CET), "Adrian Gibanel Lopez"
>>>>>> <agibanel at alumnes.udl.cat> said:
>
>     > In my university they have been working with Rocks OS for some
> years.
>     > I have shown how FAI works and the class concept powerfullness and
> he has
>     > told me that this was Rocks 2!.
> Yep, I also think that you can use FAI to replace Rocks. Rocks is a
> collection of usefull software packages for a beowulf cluster. This
> can also be done with FAI. Butwith FAI you will have much more freedom
> to modify this cluster installation. AFAIK Rocks can't be configured
> that freely as FAI.

I see. FAI gives us more freedom but it is somewhat more difficult for
setup. But this is going to change with my thesis where there are going to
be described three or four different FAI installations.

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