[Beowulf] KVM to a compute node

[Jerker Nyberg]

On Fri, 28 May 2004, Suvendra Nath Dutta wrote:

> What kind of solutions do people go to boot up an individual compute
> node. We will have nodes with video cards and disks, so they can boot
> up separately. But I am hoping there is a solution that is better than
> stringing long KVM wires across the server room.

Check out IPMI - Intelligent Platform Management Interface. It can be used
for remote out-of-band management for power-on, power-off and serial
console over ethernet.

http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/
http://www.nongnu.org/freeipmi/

Regards,
Jerker Nyberg.
Uppsala, Sweden.