From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 20 15:19: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from inet03.citec.qld.gov.au (inet03.citec.qld.gov.au [203.5.10.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6FF37B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:19:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by inet03.citec.qld.gov.au; id JAA01316; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:19:00 +1000 (EST) Received: from citecub.citec.qld.gov.au( 131.242.4.98) by inet03.citec.qld.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma001122; Wed, 21 Nov 01 09:18:53 +1000 Received: from guru.citec.qld.gov.au by citecub.citec.qld.gov.au (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA18086; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:18:45 +1000 Received: from localhost (sgcccdc@localhost) by guru.citec.qld.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA11729; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:18:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: guru.citec.qld.gov.au: sgcccdc owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:18:44 +1000 (EST) From: Colin Campbell To: Shaun Jurrens Cc: Subject: Re: Clustering software In-Reply-To: <20011120094227.G24849@atreides.freenix.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Shaun Jurrens wrote: > #>Hi, > #> > #>Unfortunately the searching I've done yields little or nothing, especially > #>if you are talking high-availability-type clustering. Seems the linux > #>people are the only ones doing any serious work on that - see > #>www.linux-ha.org. You might find some links to, or actual software, you > #>can use/port. > > Unfortunately this is not at all the case. I don't know where you've > done your searching, but it hasn't been very thorough. Ronald Minnich > (excuse any bad spelling) has been doing clustering with FreeBSD for _years_ > and has clusters of 64 and more (iirc) machines. I'd appreciate if you did > better research before you post such information to the lists. It only > serves to disinform those who search in the list archives. 64 hosts doesn't sound to me like high availability clustering (on which my reply was based - read it again). It sounds more like beowulf-style clustering. Since Dimitry didn't specify what he was looking for I tried to qualify my answer by limiting it to HA clusters. If you know of such HA clustering software, tell all of us. There have been quite a few requests for clustering software over the years. I have never seen anyone reply with anything like the linux-ha project. Maybe FreeBSD is so good, clustering software isn't needed. And before you jump down my throat, I run fbsd on my desktop and my two squid servers are fbsd. > The biggest problem with those searching for "clustering" software usually > is that they haven't defined "clustering" in combination with their needs. > Your assumptions about what what Dmitry actually is looking for make your > answer even less accurate. Read my reply again. I pretty much specified "high availability clustering" because Dimitry did not qulaify his search. I figured all the beowulf style paralle computing clusters were os independent (or pretty much so) and therefore easily found and that's why I left them out. > #> > #>On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Dmitry Alyabyev wrote: > #> > #>> Hello > #>> > #>> I'm trying to find as more as possible information about clustering > #>> software for/under FreeBSD. Could someone describe the real example of > #>> that and tells how strong/effective in real life that is ? > #> > #>Colin > > P.S. This is a reply that I cut-n-wasted from the ML archives. I'm not on > the list, so if you think I should get your mail, use CC: > > Colin -- Colin Campbell Unix Support/Postmaster/Hostmaster CITEC +61 7 3006 4710 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message