[Lvlug] Linux Clustering

[Adam Breaux]

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On 7/19/05, jmm <jmcnam at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian K [mailto:bkuebler at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 03:05 AM
> > To: 'Russ', 'lvlug'
> > Subject: Re: [Lvlug] Linux Clustering
> >
> > >  just throwing a net out here...
> > > >
> > > > anybody...work with/exposed to/manage/handed/installed a computing
> > > > cluster (of any size, shape and/or type) with GNU/Linux ? I'm on a cluster
> > > > kick at the moment (workplace driven, the boss is asking/tossing terms about
> > > > HA, failover, shared storage stuff on our main business app - mostly casual,
> > > > 'PHB language' at the moment). Been going through the stuff at the OSCAR
> > > > site...http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/.
> > > >
> > >
> > I may be able to help you out here... I am no guru on building them, but I
> > know a lot of the pitfalls/misunderstandings about clustering. As for the
> > storage end of it, I may(possibly) be the most qualified person to talk to
> > about that.
> >
> 
> thanks - right, I pretty quickly realized after some reading about clusters in general that the storage part (and getting just this one part of it right) can itself be a challenge.
> 
> > I do pre-sales technical support for enterprise/SMB storage for a large
> > company, so I could help you out with understanding what options are out
> > there as well as the pricing.
> >
> > If you want, contact me off list and we can talk about it further.
> >
> 
> much apprec. again - will do so...
> 
> > I will leave you this as food for thought... There is a HUGE difference
> > between a computational cluster (what you were talking about) and an HA
> > cluster (what your boss was talking about). They are designed in totally
> > different manners for totally different end results. Computational clusters
> > usually have (hopefully!) many nodes crunching stuff in the same or a few
> > racks. HA clusters may have only 2 nodes connected by dark fiber, some
> > fibre(sic) channel disk while having hundreds of miles between them.
> > Geographically dispersed clusters are not as rare as they once were.
> >
> 
> indeed, had picked up on the HPC and HA differences. I would be more interested in the HA aspects of clustering at this point. Found this site last night - the fellow hasn't appeared to have updated his content lately, but most of the resource links are still alive:
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> http://lcic.org
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