It depends on exactly how you had it set up. Most likely you were only
pulling the OS information form your terminal server down the network to
the client. The client would then boot with that information and load
up the required cluster daemons.
What you are thinking about is a dumb terminal, or even a smart
terminal. Where you get just the OS information and run an X server on
the client (plus perhaps a few other things like sound daemon) then run
your Xsession from the server. This has the effect of doing what you
were thinking below, that the applications are running on the server and
not distributed.
Now the mistake would be if the Xsession was where you ran the cluster
daemons. This would have the effect of running on the server while
displaying on the client and defeating the purpose of your test.
X is an awesome framework in it's network transparency, but can be
confusing when trying to figure out what is running where.
Hope this helps some.
-Bill
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 17:48 -0700, Charlie Bullen wrote:
> This weekend I was investigateing setting up a cluster with
> clusterknoppix. I got it to work, but now something comes to mind that
> makes me wonder if I really had it working right.
>
> The setup I used used terminal services and all the knodes boot over the
> network from the server using PXE.
>
> What occurs to me now is that usually, if a remote computer boots from a
> terminal server the session is really running on the server. THis would
> seem to defeat the idea of being able to use the CPUs of all the
> computers at the same time.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
>
> Charlie
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