Hi.
For technical purposes in my job, i need to mount a cluster of various pc’s to work in parallel.
Anyone have an idea?
I want to use suse 11, because i know the system and i already have 4 servers with suse 11, but i don’t have idea to use any software to put in cluster pc’s neither to use programs in parallel.
In fact, the reason to mount that is recycle old pc’s in a cluster and have a master with vmware and use the parallel tech to improve performance in the vmware.
tnx
Clustering is a very complex and deep topic. First of all, you have to decide on the type of cluster you want to build - for high performance computing (HPC) etc. You can even build clusters for serving TCP/IP or UDP based services in parallel (LVS - Linux Virtual Servers) with load balancing.
These are some pointers:
The Linux Virtual Server Project - Linux Server Cluster for Load Balancing
The Linux Clustering Information Center
Linux Cluster HOWTO
Beowulf.org: The Beowulf Cluster Site
I have a cluster of 40+ machines and for that, I use a modified version of LVS. (Modification was done to handle the secured connections in a different way).
But, I am not sure whether you can use clustering to improve the performance of VMware. There is no clustering solution that can build a big monolithic machine out of smaller machines.
tnx for your answer
i will read that papers.
Hi
I ran a small cluster of 4 machines awhile back using pvm to process
seti based aroud oscar.
http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/oscar/
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/
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