building cluster

Hi there,
> I read a lot of information about OpenSSI and I must say that I really 
> like this project.
> I have an idea how to transform our existing infrastructure to the 
> cluster but I have some questions.
> We have few servers (7) which are used for several applications (web 
> server, DNS, mail server, many game servers) and all together forms 
> the gaming portal. Each server has its own public IP and each server 
> has its own hard drive with Debian OS and installed services which it 
> runs.
> I am not sure if I understood the right functions of OpenSSI but my 
> idea is this.
>
> I want to create one cluster from these servers. I would have one 
> master server running OpenSSI and other servers would be cluster 
> nodes. I would like to have all data on the master server and I want 
> the cluster to act as one computer with one IP address running all 
> server software. This should do some process based load-balancing 
> between nodes.
> After reading some documentation I believe there is a chance that this 
> will work.
>
> BUT ...
>
> Our machines are delivered from different sources (mostly as a sponsor 
> gift) and they have different motherboards, CPUs, network cards (some 
> are onboard some are PCI) etc. and some of them has multicore CPUs.
>
> So one problem is that some network cards probably :-) doesnt support 
> the PXE protocol, but we will probably buy new gigabit cards and 
> gigabit switch for cluster`s internal network. Can we use Etherboot 
> with standard network card , for example can we boot Etherboot from 
> flashcard ?
>
> But I think bigger problem is ... if we use multicore CPU machine as a 
> cluster node .. the machine will boot from network image which is 
> (according to the documentation) Syslinux image ... I dont know then 
> ... will it use both CPUs (cores) for the cluster ?? will it work at 
> all ??
>
> thanks for answer
>


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