Re: makings of a junk yard cluster ??

2005-11-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/15/05, Arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folk like most people involved in IT you tend to build you a junk yard of redundant machines Ive just been through mine and found could at a push make 5 x86 PCs 2x amd 400mhz 2x via 700mhz 1x amd duron 1200 also have lots of spare nic

RE: makings of a junk yard cluster ??

2005-11-15 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Ideally you need to define what you mean by a cluster Depending on who you talk to practical clusters are very different. The most common industry type cluster is called a shared nothing cluster. It is basically two or more physical servers connected to the same storage subsystem where data only

Re: makings of a junk yard cluster ??

2005-11-15 Thread Arden
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:46:02 +0300 Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/15/05, Arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folk like most people involved in IT you tend to build you a junk yard of redundant machines Ive just been through mine and found could at a push make 5 x86 PCs 2x

Re: makings of a junk yard cluster ??

2005-11-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Arden wrote: like most people involved in IT you tend to build you a junk yard of redundant machines Here's a URL I filed away for a rainy day when I had some spare time (yeah, right :-)). Interesting read if nothing else: http://blizzard.rwic.und.edu/~nordlie/miniwulf/ Google might

Re: makings of a junk yard cluster ??

2005-11-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/15/05, Arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:46:02 +0300 Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/15/05, Arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folk like most people involved in IT you tend to build you a junk yard of redundant machines Ive just been through