Hi
Sorry for the delay in answerring. I am a slow writer. :-) And also am poorly
organised in doing certain things. Also I am posting this to Linux-India-Help so
that the others out there can also provide more insight into it.
As far as clustering in Linux is concerned
a) For Load sharing and Failsafe operations of Web Services
or FTP or so
a.1) http://www.LinuxVirtualServer.org/ ->
The LVS project is a good starting point to look at
a.2) TurboLinux Cluster Distribution also provides solution
for this
a.3) Redhat comes with whats called Piranaha or so which
is basically a GUI frontend to LVS ++
b) For Distributed processing for Number crunching or for
utilizing the power of the m/cs on a network.
b.1) PVM and MPI are one way of achieving this.
Someone correct me If I am wrong as I haven't
extensively looked into beowulf clusters. Even
beowulf clusters use a system based around PVM
and MPI and some fast M/c to M/c network traffic
logic and so.
b.2) I had gone thro Mosix sometime back it seemed like
a good way of achieving Distributed computing by
dynamic movement of processes across the systems
in a network
b.3) If I am not wrong (I haven't tried it yet) JAVA RMI allows
movement of objects across systems in a network. this
could be a good way of writing a system based on java
which basically has some Daemon sitting on the machines
on a network and accepting jobs written in java as required
and running them on those m/cs. ++
b.4) One could write a similar system as I told for Java in C or
Pascal or any other language. The part that could take some
time is making it work across Different OSs and Architecture.
And also what and all can be the jobs that can be done in
such a system if one is looking at making it Cross platform.
b.5) TurboLinux guys seem to have come out with something called
Infusion. Similar to b.2 and b.4 if I am not wrong.
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
> Saw your posting in the ILUG mailing list. Can you point me to some
> resources on clustering on Linux. I am specifically looking for numbers
> and maintainability issues as i am in the process of convincing one of
> my customers to go in for a linux clustered solution rather than a 'wolf
> pack'.
>
> Thanks
> Shiv
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