Now that clusters are being showed off...I've been impressed by
Berkeley NOW myself: http://now.cs.berkeley.edu. The guyz at
Berkeley just HAVE to be bigger....
- --thomas
On 28-Apr-98 Pierre Phaneuf wrote:
> Sebastian Taralunga wrote:
>
>> A friend of mine working for Microsoft is asking me (and I
>> quote):
>>
>> || BTW: does Linux know about clusters? As far as I know, no.
>> || NT5 knows already and this makes it less prone to
>> || attacks..
>>
>> Which proves that indeed what they understand by
>> "clustering". But what
>> really is clustering, and does linux support it?
>
> There is a few things that can be called "clusters". What *I*
> call a
> cluster is a thing like Beowulf systems
> (http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/). Those things
> pool
> computing power to complete large and complex calculations.
> Beowulf is
> the name of a system based on Linux. One of the newest large
> Beowulf
> cluster around, Avalon (http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/), made
> with 68 DEC
> Alpha's, capable of 19.3 GigaFLOPS!
>
> Another form of clustering is one of redundancy. You have for
> example 10
> web servers serving the same URLs with load-balancing between
> them, for
> additional client capacity and better reliability (as a few
> defective
> nodes will only lessen performance).
>
> Microsoft has something called Wolfpack, that I don't even
> know what it
> does exactly.
>
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> Pierre Phaneuf
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