How many nodes can be in Pelican Cluster?

[Misiek]

Hello everyone. I'm interested about using Pelican someday with maybe more than 64 nodes. And now... I have seen during Pelican startup, that there is 64 address pool. Is there posibility to build Cluster with Pelican having more than 64 units?

Best regards, Misiek.

[Michael Creel]

The last releases allow up to 100 nodes. This is set in the variable MAXNODES in the make_pelican script. One could set that to 254, if needed. So you can use any size private class C network. For a larger network, a little more editing would be needed, I think, but there's no reason why it couldn't be done.

If you want to alter a released version to use a larger network, the scripts in /usr/bin/ with names pelican_* would need to be edited before running pelican_setup.

[Misiek]

Thank You very much for fast replay.