[Klug-general] Clustering

[Mike Rentell]

Hah! That seems to be what I am looking for. I've taken a look at that 
web-site and it seems very suitable. I especially like the bit about the 
cluster working happily with normal applications etc.

Many thanks for that and all the other suggestions. Most helpful.
Mike Rentell


Hubertus A. Haniel wrote:
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> You have not actually specified if you want to cluster for distributed 
> compute power or high availability - I am going to assume that you want 
> distributed compute power and for that http://openmosix.sourceforge.net 
> is an interesting project which I played a while back and it works well 
> for threaded applications.
> 
> Best regards
> Hubba
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> Mike Rentell wrote:
>> G'day all,
>> A friend has taken delivery of eight 32-bit PCs recently chucked out 
>> by his company. Reasonable spec, nothing special.
>> We have been discussing stacking them in a room, wiring them together 
>> and using them as a Linux cluster.
>> Would anyone in the group know the best distro to use and, more to the 
>> point, know of any idiot proof tutorial stuff anywhere?
>> Cheers
>> MikeR
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