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High Performance Diskless Linux At AX-Div, LLNL

Posted by timothy on from the four-letter-acronym dept.

Lee Busby writes "As a co-author, I am biased, but I think that our recent paper describing a diskless Linux deployment at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (PDF)may be of general interest. It's a little different than most diskless systems -- simpler, and designed to be high performance."

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  1. Re:iSCSI? by 4of12 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sharing common resources is great, and NFS performance is increased if they're all mounted read-only on the clients.

    Keeping some protection and partition of /home/me over iSCSI to a single workstation seems like a good idea to me. Given all the concerns of classified processing, it's not like you and some other workstation are going to be routinely part of a parallel cluster where multiple clients need write access to the same filesystem.

    Then, each client would only need a writable /etc for system configuration and /var for log files over iSCSI.

    I'm not familiar enough to know, but if the traffic is read only, can't the same /usr/bin be exported to multiple clients via iSCSI?

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    "Provided by the management for your protection."