[BProc] ANNOUNCE: New Clustermatic

[Erik A. H. <er...@he...>]

A new version of the clustermatic CD was placed on
www.clustermatic.org today.  The diff looks like this:

 * Updated BProc (3.1.9): fewer bugs, remote exec hacks, etc.

 * Updated Beoboot (lanl 1.2): minor changes.

 * PPC support added.  There's no two kernel monte on ppc right now
   but everything else is there.

The ISO9660 filesystem image is bootable on all three architectures.
On intel and alpha, it comes up with a phase 1 boot image and on ppc
it comes up with phase 2.

The MPICH hacks which I've mentioned are included on the CD in the
mpirun-0.1 tar ball in the tarballs directory.  We used those hacks to
run a 396 process job on Chiba city at Argonne National Lab the other
day.  This clustermatic also survived some boot time torture testing
on about 200 nodes there.  (Thanks guys!)  The load spike on the front
end is severe when they all boot at once but all the nodes we started
with came up.  We've got a guy working on that problem here.
Hopefully beoboot lanl 1.3 will mostly eliminate that problem.

- Erik
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