Application: FAI FAI is a non interactive system to install a Debian GNU/Linux operating system on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on the power and after a few minutes Linux is installed, configured and running on the whole cluster, without any interaction necessary. Thus it's a scalable method for installing and updating a cluster unattended with little effort involved. FAI uses the Debian distribution and a collection of shell- and Perl-scripts for the installation process. Changes to the configuration files of the operating system are made by cfengine, shell and Perl scripts. Using FAI, an unattended and fully automated installation of a Linux cluster which consists of 16 dual Pentium PC's and a beowulf cluster with 20 1GHz AMD nodes was performed. FAI's target group are system administrators how have to install Debian onto one or even hundreds of computers. Because it's a general purpose installation tool, it can be used for installing a beowulf cluster, a rendering farm, a web server farm or a linux laboratory or a classroom. Also large-scale linux networks with different hardware and different installation requirements are easy to establish using FAI.   Homepage http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ Download http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download Author Not Shown <lange_AT_informatik_DOT_uni-koeln.de> Version 2.0 Licence GPL Source Yes Environment Console Status Stable We are currently updating this section of the site. Change submissions are temporarily disabled. Click Here to go back to the index
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