Re: Help in setting up a cluster

Someone recommend me this distro for make cluster things more easy,
but I don't test it yet
http://www.rocksclusters.org/

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Gerald Wrong <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Look into Mosix for simple heterogenous clustering of linux boxes, but you have to comfortable rolling your own kernels unless somethings changed.  Last time I was a student, you could get Mosix for free as a student.
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> The webserver failover is a slightly different topic from distributed/cluster computing IMO.  One easy thing to do would be to make an image whereby every machine had the same webserver and content, and use some kind of load balancing/redirection.
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> Good Luck!
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> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Anatoly Molchanov <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Do you want use beowulf? Or you interested in clustered web-server issue?
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>> 2013/2/21 Yazeed Alsaif <[email protected]>
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>>> Hello,
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>>> This is my first time posting here, I think I am in the right place, if not I am sorry.
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>>> um, Here is my situation.
>>> I am in middle of my final year project (Undergrad), anyway my project is on Linux Clustering and I am asked to demonstrate the effectiveness of a cluster practically, I have done my thesis but I am stuck on the practical side.
>>> what I want and looking for is:
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>>> 1- I want to test the cluster by running a software that can take advantage of other machines resources and converting songs from one extension to another in a short time, and then I will compare that to if the conversion process was run on one machine.
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>>> 2- I want to run a web server on the cluster, so if one machine fails, the website will still be there. (for fault tolerance demonstration)
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>>> Note: I do NOT anyone to do it for me, I want to do it myself. All I want is guidelines and perhaps some best practices.
>>> thanks guys.
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>>> Yazeed.
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