Re: installing emc on a server questions

[eric <eek105-at-psu.edu>]

garrett beaubien wrote:

> This discussion has tweaked my interest.  If you have
> 6 client machines and one server, I think that each of
> the six machines could boot off the server, load the
> real time kernel, and run EMC of each local machine.
> In effect this would be like using the NFS as the hard
> disk.  But could 6 instances of the non real-time
> processes (emctask, emcio, etc) be running on the
> server with the real-time (emcmot) running on each of
> the 6 clients, as the application stand now?

Actually,
the only thing that should be running on the server is an x terminal.
It is a lot of work to get the machines running diskless, at least for
me.  I have been wanting to do it for a while, it just seems too
daunting.
Most of the programming work has been done though.  But i think you then 
run everything on the diskless machine and only have tkemc running on
your
remote machine, so you can sit in your air-conditioned, sound proofed
office
and watch the chips fly through the window.  Actually tkemc would also
be running
on the diskless machine, it just sends its output to the xterminal on
the server.

It actually isn't too much of a stretch to do this because you could
have a
cnc lathe and a cnc mill and one really nice workstation and 2 cheezy
old
pentiums running the machines. 
eric