[olug] $27 IBM thin clients (model#8361-110)

[Brian Wiese]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:48:04 -0600
Ken <emptymm at cox.net> wrote:

|Ken wrote:
|
|> It would be a cheap way to start experimenting with bewoulf clusters :)
|
|Sorry, I'll need to read closer next time... *diskless* terminal.. 
|Without access to the local storage then it's a whole new ballgame.  I'd 
|guess it's just an X-client.
|-Ken

If it has a CPU, RAM, and NIC, it can be part of a cluster... local
storage is not really required.  The best thing I've seen for this
(perhaps the easiest?) is to bootup your master server with
clusterknoppix, and you have all these lovely thin clients ready to boot
off the network and join the cluster!!! muahahahah... ?

http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/
"No cdrom drive/harddisk/floppy needed for the clients
openMosix autodiscovery - new nodes automatically join the cluster (no
configuration needed)"

the K12LTSP + OpenMOSIX howto says the clients need floppy?
http://www.k12os.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14
http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ltsp-omr4-1.html

something else I found, diskless oscar clusters
http://thin-oscar.ccs.usherbrooke.ca/?t[]=tt.1&mod=Page.Display


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