Stephen Smoogen wrote:
Ah.. the problem for us has come that we need a ton of diskless systems, but that many have to run different configurations that are out of step from a central image. I had hoped this would be the exception rather than the rule, but it has become more of the rule than anyone expected (and seems to be the rule at other similar organizations.)
There's some high level discussion on things related to this here:
.. a high level look at the different large scale configuration systems out there with a view to what's needed going forward to managing Grid systems. There are case studies for a number of existing large scale installations in there ranging from 120 nodes to 1100.
Carwyn