Hello,
This is a bit off topic for the LAM mailing list, but since
it's hear, I'll at least mention that Warewulf is a very good
cluster meta-distro. I'm switching all our clusters to it for the
easier sysadmin aspects. See: http://warewulf-cluster.org/
It's also being extensivly used at LBL, see: http://metacluster.lbl.gov/
Basically, Warewulf allows you to build a virtual node filesystem on a
boot server, and that virtual filesystem is used to create a ramdisk for
the nodes. That allows diskless/stateless nodes, and greatly simplifies
maintenance. Boot time for the cluster is still very fast, and
hardware faults are easily distinquished from software problems.
As for the distros we have used on clusters, I've done
slackware (a long time ago), and then each version of RedHat from 5.2
thru 9.0. Someone else mentioned that you are best staying with
one you are familiar with... I would add, unless you are not happy
with it. I suspect I'll be switching our standard install distro to
cAos-1.0 when it's released from http://caosity.org/ since it's being
specifically tweaked to work well with Warewulf, among other reasons.
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Tim Mattox - tmattox_at_[hidden] - http://homepage.mac.com/tmattox/
http://aggregate.org/KAOS/ - http://advogato.org/person/tmattox/
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