A diskless node (or diskless workstation) is a workstation or personal computer without disk drives, which employs network booting to load its operating system from a server. (A computer may also be said to act as a diskless node, if its disks are unused and network booting is used.)
Diskless nodes (or computers acting as such) are sometimes known as network computers or hybrid clients. Hybrid client may either just mean diskless node, or it may be used in a more particular sense to mean a diskless node which runs some, but not all, applications remotely, as in the thin client computing architecture.
Advantages of diskless nodes can include lower production cost, lower running costs, quieter operation, and manageability advantages (for example, centrally managed software installation).
In many universities and in some large organizations, PCs are used in a similar configuration, with some or all applications stored remotely but executed locally—again, for manageability reasons. However, these are not diskless nodes if they still boot from a local hard drive.
A disklessnode (or diskless workstation) is a workstation or personal computer without disk drives, which employs network booting to load its operating...
DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux) is a NFS-/NIS server providing a diskless or systemless environment for client machines. It could be used for cloning...
protocols such as web services protocols. Some organizations use a disklessnode model partway between centralized computing and conventional desktop...
local processing power, although they are heavily network-dependent Disklessnode: It has no local storage (e.g. no hard disk drives) but may have anything...
each server can support. Require more resources but fewer servers. Disklessnode Rich client platform Thin client Edge computing "Thick Client Definition"...
and popularity of various software options for using full desktops as disklessnodes, thin clients, and hybrid clients, the Network Computer brand never...
no hard drive, and only the CPU, keyboard, mouse, and screen. Some disklessnodes still run a traditional operating system and perform computations locally...
computing systems such as cluster computing in that grid computers have each node set to perform a different task/application. Grid computers also tend to...
mainly to the UK educational market as cassette-based system or as a disklessnode which could be connected, via the proprietary CHAIN Network, to a Research...
distributions into a master image used as the root of disklessnodes. A single image can serve thousands of nodes. oneSIS requires functional infrastructure, such...
SA-only benefits, including a license allowing the operating of disklessnodes (diskless PCs) and activation via Volume License Key (VLK). Windows 7 Ultimate...
to 32 compute nodes. The system architecture is a partitioned system, with the majority of the system comprising diskless compute nodes and a small number...
rather than a local drive. This method of booting can be used by routers, diskless workstations and centrally managed computers (thin clients) such as public...
needed for typical computations in lattice quantum chromodynamics. The disklessnodes are operated using a standard Linux distribution (CentOS 7), which is...
make all of the slave node file systems manageable from one point, and automate the distribution of the node file system during node boot. It allows a central...
connected to a server (called a "master"). The workstations, normally diskless, were booted over the cluster network from the master, and could optionally...
policy. Diskless Whether the service's server hardware is connected to hard drives, according to the service provider. If the servers are diskless, the service...
The Altix ICE blade platform is an Intel Xeon-based system featuring diskless compute blades and a Hierarchical Management Framework (HMF) for scalability...
root Cluster from ATIX UnixWare NonStop Clusters was a base for OpenSSI Diskless shared-root cluster Distributed lock manager Distributed cache Parallel...
expansion path for buyers of low-end minicomputers. LAVc also allowed diskless satellite nodes to bootstrap over the network using the system disk of a bootnode...
Notable features of this operating system were its support of demand paging, diskless workstations, multiprocessing, asynchronous input/output (I/O), the ability...
development for the Nintendo 64. IRIS 1000 series graphics terminals (diskless 1000/1200, 1400/1500 with disks) IRIS 2000 series workstations (2000/2200/2300/2400/2500...
the Model 710, code-named "Bushmaster Junior". Both systems are low-end diskless workstations, with the Model 705 using a 32 MHz PA-7000 and the Model 710...
However, a generic consumer-grade network interface is not able to boot a diskless computer from a remote iSCSI data source.[citation needed] Instead, it...
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