[Klug-general] Clustering

[Mike Rentell]

Thanks to all for their constructive input. I shall consider them all 
very carefully. Whether we succeed will depend on a number of 
contingencies at the moment. But at least I have the best advice.

Mike Rentell



MacGyveR wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 Feb 2008, Hubertus A. Haniel wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> 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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> clump/os provides a bootable cd distro for mosix use
>