Hello, I manage a rocks cluster and I was wondering how anyone has gone about installing bioconductor on a cluster. My concern is that the slave nodes re-image themselves on a reboot, so that would mean a re-install every time and I do not have an RPM for Redhat like stuff. thanks, Dan

Hi Dan, On 23 Dec 2005, danield at igb.uiuc.edu wrote: > I manage a rocks cluster and I was wondering how anyone has gone > about installing bioconductor on a cluster. I don't know what a rocks cluster is. We have a "cluster" of servers that use NFS to share a filesystem. This is one way to install Bioconductor on a cluster. > My concern is that the slave nodes re-image themselves on a reboot, > so that would mean a re-install every time and I do not have an RPM > for Redhat like stuff. I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to achieve. Perhaps you want to create an image for the slave nodes that includes R and Bioc packages? You might be interested in quantian http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html. + seth