Dear All,

Does anyone have any experience with BOINC regarding:

1. Launching BOINC application from a single netboot image, but,
2. Running/storing BOINC project info (SETI at Home) on a local disk, local to each netboot node?

The context here is a large scale compute cluster, where every compute node netboots, but runs BOINC & SETI at Home locally.

Any experience or thoughts with regard to the architecture? Thank you so much,

Mark

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Dear All,

Does anyone have any experience with BOINC regarding:

1. Launching BOINC application from a single netboot image, but,
2. Running/storing BOINC project info (SETI at Home) on a local disk, local to each netboot node?

The context here is a large scale compute cluster, where every compute node netboots, but runs BOINC & SETI at Home locally.

Any experience or thoughts with regard to the architecture? Thank you so much,

Mark

I once saw the results of a Data Center on the LeaderPage. It was running all "headless" (no gpu) systems.
What I don't know is if they did it like you described or not.

My understanding is "all the action" is in the \ProgramData\BOINC and lower area. Under linux that I am running the BOINC folder is where all the action is, all the executables as well as the data.

The issue is if the programs and data can be completely seperated using say something like the "app_info.xml" file or something else. I would suggest a cross-posting on the "messages" area under "numbercrunching".

Tom

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).

I would suggest a cross-posting on the "messages" area under "numbercrunching".

Tom

I posted a reference to this thread in the "don't know where to post it" thread. If we get no responses, I will suggest you post a new thread over there.

Tom

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).