[Gllug] Cluster management s/ware

[John Hearns]

2009/11/27 Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk>:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:32:46AM +0000, James Hawtin wrote:
>> I think it depends what you want the cluser to do. web serving? Maths etc,
>> are you clustering for resilence or power. DO they need a common file
>> system? ETc.
>
> A compute cluster (ie number crunching), resilience is not the issue.
> Currently file sharing is via NFS (although each node has some hard disk),
> they have a SAN so use of GFS is possible - not looked at that yet.

The drawback there is affording 30x fibrechannel cards and 30x FC
switch ports...
At the 30 node size I would run with NFS - and even at bigger node
counts than that, if you have an NFS server
with a bit of oomph. If you really do want a clustered filesystem, the
free one of note is Lustre.
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