On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, SEN wrote:
> Truthfully , as far as I know Lin NOS falls short on clustering, though I
> hear the latest version is scalable upto 16 microprocessors. I remember
> about having read about B'rwolf
> Clusters earlier on .....
http://www.linux-ha.org will be helpful.
Basically, there are two major types of clustering:
A> Where you combine the computing power to make a supercomputing
cluster [Beowulf].
B> Where you combine two or more machines in parallel so that no
machine gets overloaded with data requests, and if one fails the other
can take over the load. To anyone outside the network, this cluster
will appear as a single machine. [Like imitating a mainframe]
Scalability, as I understand it, is a different issue. Scalability has
to do with multiple processors in the same machine, sharing a memory
bus.
The rest of the points, I will leave to the kernel hackers and gurus
to clarify.
Of course, if there is something you need, fix it yourself or pay
someone to fix it.
Devdas Bhagat
--
Eating chocolate is like being in love without the aggravation.
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