Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:51:22 +0200 From: Dmitry Alyabyev <dimitry@al.org.ua> To: Enno Davids <enno.davids@metva.com.au> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Clustering software Message-ID: <31153526830.20011121105122@al.org.ua> In-Reply-To: <200111202341.KAA02627@metva.com.au> References: <200111202341.KAA02627@metva.com.au>
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Wednesday, November 21, 2001, 1:41:23 AM, Enno Davids wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:42:27 +0100 Shaun Jurrens <shaun@shamz.net> 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. > I suspect the discussion here has diverged. Clearly Shaun and the first > respondant (who's name I can't see here - my apologies) are talking about > different sorts of clustering. The large clusters of 64 fairly clearly are > Beowulf style systems where a single task is broken down and sprayd across > many systems to gain processing advantage out of the parallelism of the > clustered systems. > But the question specifically asks about HA clustering (presumably something > like the commercial Vertias Cluster Services product we use on our Suns at > work). You're totaly right ! -- Dimitry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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