On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Carpenter, Dean wrote: > Hey All - > > Can anyone provide a good recommended reading list for cluster/high > performance/high avail/beowulf computing ? Which books have you read and > found to be good, and more importantly, which were bad and to be avoided ?
The great thing about this type of question is that it can easily be the start of a nice little flame war. :) But, for a partial answer to your question, I have only read one book on the subject of Linux clustering -- "Building Linux Clusters," which was published by O'Reilly. This book was very much not good. It was also pulled off the production line by O'Reilly only a few months after it was released, so they recognized that it needed some help. I have found, however, that books are sometimes not a very helpful source of information in this particular field. The technology is evolving so rapidly that in many cases, if a book is about specific technologies, it can be out of date by the time it is released. There are a few websites out there that are actually helpful in providing information and links about various aspects of Linux clustering. A few of these you may wish to check out are: http://lcic.org http://linux-ha.org http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/cluster/index.html I know that the first and third of these links have pages or sections about books related to Linux and Linux clustering. Good Luck, --Joe ************************************* * Joe Greenseid * * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * http://www.thunderlizards.net * * http://lcic.org * *************************************
