From owner-freebsd-cluster Thu Dec 16 6:53:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.bart.nl (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8364A14E5F for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 06:53:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@lucifer.bart.nl) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.bart.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA68713 for cluster@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:53:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:53:48 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Project homepage and definitions Message-ID: <19991216155348.C68446@lucifer.bart.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Organisation: bART Internet Services B.V. Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Added a few more references. (still sifting through Eivind's list.) I am also in the prospect in writing a text on what exactly high availability and clustering is. basically, at least what I know is that: high availability is a more sophisticated form of load balancing clustering is basically the grouping of stations and the sharing of processes between those stations. Also parallization plays an important aspect. Comments/changes/additions/deletions/bananas? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator bART Internet Services / Tel: +31 - (0) 10 - 240 39 70 VIA NET.WORKS Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message