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K12LTSP + MOSIX Howto

Posted by Hemos on from the bigger-better-faster-and-cheaper dept.

Paul Nelson writes "Richard Camp posted a very complete, step by step guide to building a MOSIX cluster. "...The objective of this howto is to guide the reader on setting up a Mosix cluster with diskless nodes. The setup is based on K12ltsp Project. This should provide an easily scalable system."

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  1. MOSIX Deployment by PatJensen · · Score: 5, Informative
    There is a much better, easier way to deploy a MOSIX cluster. This article is poorly written, and missing several important sections. It is not for the kernel-phobic or beginner users. The preferred way to bring up a diskless cluster with easy tear down, no maintenance, and no network booting required is to use ClumpOS.

    ClumpOS is a bootable CD with network drivers that is pre-setup with a custom kernel that contains MOSIX and MFS out of the box with no work required. You can download and burn ClumpOS and then boot it on your slave machines.

    As far as building your MOSIX master goes, I prefer Debian with the prebuilt easy to deploy MOSIX packages and kernel patches. The links to find both are below:

    Clump/OS: A CD-based mini distribution
    MOSIX on Debian

    MOSIX is a fun, extremely useful tool. Just remember when building your Debian kernel to make sure to turn ALL options on for MOSIX, this includes MFS. Otherwise, you will have weird problems with not being able to migrate processes to your cluster.

    -Pat