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ArsTechnica shows us how to build a diskless farm for distributed computing

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edited January 2004 in Science & Tech
[link=http://www.arstechnica.com/etc/linux/index.html]ArsTechnica's linux.ars[/link] has a guide on how to build a diskless farm for distributed computing projects. Very cool for those of us (ahem) who are addicted to distributed computing projects, such as [link=http://www.short-media.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=14]Team Short-Media's Folding Effort[/link]

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  • t1rhinot1rhino Toronto
    edited January 2004
    Very cool!
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited January 2004
    anyway to do that in windows?
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    There is a link in the Everthing about FAH thread where you can download a Knoppix Linux ISO that has FAH and other DC projects on it. Its bootable so all you have to do is boot and enter info and let it sit.
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Yea there was a big discussion about this here at S-M months ago about it. I thought it turned out that one of the S-M members could get HDD's so cheap it was better to do that and risk losing wu's from RAM if there's a power failure.

    ~Cyrix
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    You can usually get them for $5 for so at some places. I know Garg can and I have done so as well.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Bud wrote:
    anyway to do that in windows?

    Not easily within Windows, no, Bud. Easier to use a live ISO and stick a CD-ROM and no HD in, set BIOS to boot from CD-ROM, give it LOTS of RAM, fold on.... Essentially, a RAMdrive can be used with no HD, big RAMdrive. Linux builds a small one as it boots, before it switches to HD, and can run in a RAMdrive, which is how the live CDs work without altering the HD on the test host. Do it from console, 256 MB is plenty. But, HDs still cheaper than that much RAM unless you want to learn how....

    John.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2004
    It should actually be dead easy to do in windows. Network boot, anyone?
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    Another possibility.
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