[Sc] [Fwd: [lugmaster] SBLUG Meeting : High availability computing]

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Subject: [lugmaster] SBLUG Meeting : High availability computing
From: Tim Williams <T.M.Williams@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, September 9, 2002 4:55 pm
To: South Birmimgham LUG <sb@mailman.lug.org.uk>,
         <lugmaster@mailman.lug.org.uk>, <seminar-mailshot@cs.bham.ac.uk>

Hello, i'm advertising this to a much wider audience than normal because
the subject matter being somewhat unusual might interest people outside
of South Birmingham Linux user Group (SBLUG). If you know somebody who
might be interested, feel free to forward this message.

Tim W

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SBLUG Meeting at 7.30pm on Thursday 19th September, School of Computer
Science, University of Birmingham. Directions can be found on
http://sb.lug.org.uk/meetings/ .



Synopsis
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The purpose of this discussion is to give the audience an overview of
clustering, with particular attention to high availability clustering.
Following the talk will be a demonstration of a highly available
webserver using LifeKeeper on Linux.


Content:


Different types of clustering
Measurement of availability of systems - how meaningful is it
Differences between hardware and application
Failover - different types of failover
Hardware requirements for clustering

Demonstration of highly available webserver using LifeKeeper on Linux.

This talk is being given by Shobana Patel of Openminds.
http://www.openminds.co.uk .


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Tim Williams BSc MSc GIBiol - Research Associate (Autotrain Project)
University of Birmingham School of Computer Science
Home Page : http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tmw
Tel : +44 (0)121 414 2214 (ext 42214 on internal phone)


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