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Hi, This is not an R question per ce, but I feel like this is a right community to ask it. As a part of our work we run a lot of non-interactive computational jobs. To increase the throughput we would like to distribute the load over the entire network and we are looking at Linux network as a platform. Ideally we would like to be able to submit a job to the network, rather than to a computer, and

Hi all, Sorry, this might be a bit off topic, but I'm not sure of the best place to ask. I'm booting a diskless PC with PXELinux, and the kernel loads successfully and I can log in and use the system as you'd expect. I have done this before, however this time I decided to try using ClusterNFS so that the diskless clients can share the boot server's filesystem. Unfortunately during system boot up to test whether the RPC portmapper is loaded, the boot scripts run "rpcinfo -p" which causes the PC to sit there for about ten minutes and then eventually time out and continue wi...