Distro for monitorless G@H

[MechCD]

What distro would be good for a monitorless, console only G@H box? Redhat with no extra goodies?

I'll need the following

telnet server
Samba
webmin
maybe lm_sensors
G@H client


This will be going on an HDD bigger than 840mb (most liekly a 1.5gb, i'm not sure if it works or not)

[phil]

Just load up your red hat cd's and choose the customised package...now choose what you want and don't want. Speak to dnar...he was messing with a very stripped down Linux distro (klinux) but I think it will require a lot of fettling to get running on your system.

[MechCD]

Fiddling baaaaad.....

We need to come with a name fer it. Dnar Distros doesn't sound that great.


Dnar's small penguin?

[viperdog]

Dnar's Dainty Distribution of Linux or 3D Linux (for short)..:D

[viperdog]

or "Tip Top Tiny Tux" then your computers could be 4T -fied...:cool:

[dnar]

LOL! Dainty???







Ok peeps, this is what I have been busy building, a small diskless distro designed for monitor/diskless clusters, with:



- RAMDISK operation



- NFS (G@H clients / work located on a central server)



- Telnet daemon




All you will need for each cluster node is a mobo, cpu, ram, NIC and PSU. Add to this one server/gateway, this may be your desktop workstation.




It is up and running, just a few issues to sort, like library issues with the client... Soon, soon, I promise!







I have not decided if this should be kept TGC inhouse, or should I release the final product to the general genome community. If it is released public, I am up for a lot more work, in support etc... Time I just dont have at the present. (X-Calibur, MechCD, kirek, phil interested maybe in helping get together a Web page, to provide support and download hosting???? Maybe a forum too??? ). Opinions welcomed.







Names? Chrunchix, GAHnix, Clustix, TGCnix, Darnix, Geneix.... :D

[viperdog]

ROTFLMAO :D

Oh I just knew that would get a reaction.......

Darn Nice Accomplishment Really (opps....did that spell Dnar)

I thought about "headless linux computing enviroment" but the only short version of that I came up with was "HeadLiCE" .

It did make me chuckle for a bit but I figured, "not only no, but H*** NO)...:D

[MechCD]

darnix sounds good

[Rick_Deadly]

Originally posted by MechCD
darnix sounds good

hehe.. hilarious :)

ROTFLMAO :D

[MechCD]

Ok, getting of of the funny stuff.

I could plop up a webpage and maybe a forum for Dnars distor, and maybe even jodies. i don't know about me helpin' in th tech support area..... I'm just getting me Junior Penguin in a regular distro, maybe with some long icq sessions i could know enough to help peeps install and set it up right

[Bruce]

Dnar: Can you comment on the ability of GANnix to run the current FAH client?
http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=2798

[dnar]

Hey Bruce. Sure thing, can you wait a few days? I just finished a 13 hour day in the office. I'll load it onto one of my GAHnix nodes this weekend and report back. Currently my farm is in peices and off, but it's going back together slowly.

My guess is it will work fine, if not it will be due to a library dependancy that I should be able to sort out, have done in the past.

[dnar]

Ok, I got bored. How much free memory does FAH 5.02 require Bruce? It runs, grabs a new core and work unit, then dies without much usefull info!

root@node3> ./FAH502-Linux.exe

Note: Please read the license agreement (FAH502-Linux.exe -license). Further
use of this software requires that you have read and accepted this agreement.



--- Opening Log file [September 29 22:05:17]


# Linux Console Edition ################################################## #####
################################################## #############################

Folding@Home Client Version 5.02

http://folding.stanford.edu

################################################## #############################
################################################## #############################

Launch directory: /mnt/fah5
Executable: ./FAH502-Linux.exe


[22:05:17] - Ask before connecting: No
[22:05:17] - Proxy: 192.168.0.1:3128
[22:05:17] - User name: dnar (Team 131)
[22:05:17] - User ID: 5059EAC41E0DDA55
[22:05:17] - Machine ID: 1
[22:05:17]
[22:05:18] Loaded queue successfully.
[22:05:18] + Benchmarking ...
[22:05:22]
[22:05:22] + Processing work unit
[22:05:22] Core required: FahCore_65.exe
[22:05:22] Core found.
[22:05:22] Working on Unit 01 [September 29 22:05:22]
[22:05:22] + Working ...
root@node3>


I have tried this on a PIII GAHnix node with 100MB free memory:-
root@node3> free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 128180 27356 100824 9204 14016
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 128180 27356 100824
root@node3>

[Bruce]

I'm not sure if I know.

In my windoze system, the console client says it has a VM size of 6,648K (though it's only using 420K ATM. (Not that you care, but the GUI client says 3,776K / 16,742K) I'm currently running the new LargeWU option on this machine and core_78 is taking 128,224K out of 171,760K) A more realisitic core requirement is 2,384K / 67,712 K for Tinker and there's a similar figure for standard WUs in Gromacs.

My Win98 box has 320MB total RAM (less whatever Bill Gates wants) and doesn't actively page - - but that's because the core has a working set around 10 MB.

I have no idea how much is needed during initialization, but you'll probably need more paging space too, and that's something you probably don't have.

[dnar]

Hrm, I checked the library requirements of the client and I have all the libraries required (or at least the libraries that the client is reporting using "ld"... It could be RAM, I'll drop more RAM into that node on the weekend and re-test.

BTW, FAH3 ran fine on GAHnix with 64MB of RAM. Maybe Vijay could help?