I would like to confirm the following.
1. GlusterHPC objective is to distribute the master image to all
the clients so that the each computing node has the same image to
perform the HPC jobs.
This is why the Gluster collects the client network information and
then distributes the image to everyone at the same time. Once the
image is distributed, the master and the clients can be booted up
normally.
2. GlusterEP objective is to capture the individual client node
image and store it to the master node so that the each client node
can be rebooted with Gluster client to provision the system whenever
the local boot image is lost or add a new node. Provisioning allows
the stored image to be loaded to the local disk based on the
username. This way, the client node images can be managed centrally
and no more loading of OS with a CD is required.
Susumu Urata
Technical Consultant
408-873-2760 (Voice)
408-873-2761 (Fax)
