“SKIF-GRID” - is an research and development program of Russian-Belarusian Union State. Full program name is “Development and utilisation of GRID software and hardware solutions and prospective high-performance SKIF-family supercomputer systems”.
The goal of the program is development and support of original technologies of high-performance computing. The principal investigator from Russia is the Institute of Program Systems of Russia Academy of Sciences (IPS RAS) and the principal investigator from Belarus is the United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus" (UIIP NAS of Belarus).
For more information about “SKIF-GRID” program see http://skif-grid.botik.ru/. There are also mailing list skif@lists.altlinux.org for ALT Linux 4.1 SKIF distribution discussions.
Use mknfsroot utility to create computation node images.