Linux Crack Rack Owners:

[Mandrill]

Any chance of you guys writing a How-To for a step by step set up of a multinode crack rack? If there is already a How-To for it, could someone pass along some urls for it?

Any help is mucho appricieated

 

[amok]

Exactly what kind of nodes are you wanting to setup? Do they have hard drives or are the diskless? That point alone would greatly help.

 

[Russ]

Someday, when I actually figure out how I got mine working, I'll write something up. In the interim, here's some reading to get you started:

http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/beowulf/tutorial/building.html

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/NFS-Root.html

http://www.beowulf-underground.org/doc_project/BIAA-HOWTO/Beowulf-Installation-and-Administration-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1

http://www.linuxrouter.org

And, pics and hardware list for mine:

http://www.compucheap.com/pages/crackrack.html

Russ, NCNE

 

[Mandrill]

Either floppy drive or diskless. no hard drives would be going onto these.

 

[cory]

if you want some floppy images or boot rom
i have them all ready to go.

just tell me the chip set and i will email them to you.

and i can give you a script to set up the root filesystems
and dhcp and some other config stuff

 

[Mandrill]

By chipset are you refering to NIC cards? AS for boot ROM those are on the NIC cards correct?

 

[Russ]

Mandrill,

Correct on both counts. He's referring to floppy images that will boot a NIC that has no ROM chip.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Mandrill]

I currently have Phoebe 10/100 pci cards and old SMC ethercard Plus Eleite 10t's which use the WD 8003 under linux and other OS's. Not sure what chipset the Phoebe's are but I got them to work under Freesco without adding any other drivers to the standard install if that helps.

 

[Russ]

Freesco's cool. It's what I'm using on my rack.

Russ, NCNE

 

[cory]

do you have the model number and chipset
for those phoebe cards

i went to www.phoebemicro.com but could not find any useful info.

examples would be realtek 8139 via-rhine
and there are many more