Re: Help in setting up a cluster

On 02/20/2013 03:37 PM, Gerald Wrong wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Good Luck!
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Anatoly Molchanov <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Do you want use beowulf? Or you interested in clustered web-server
>     issue?
>
>
>     2013/2/21 Yazeed Alsaif <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>>
>
>         Hello,
>
>         This is my first time posting here, I think I am in the right
>         place, if not I am sorry.
>
>         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:
>
>         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.
>
>         2- I want to run a web server
>         <http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/247113-39-built-cluster-
>         test#>on the cluster, so if one machine fails, the website
>         will still be there. (for fault tolerance demonstration)
>
>         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.
>
>         Yazeed.
>
>
>
Mosix is pretty much dead now, IIRC. You could try Kerrighed or OpenSSI.