Re: Debian Good for Clustering?

[Kenward Vaughan <kay_jay@earthlink.net>]

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:24:06AM -0400, Bob Freemer wrote:
> I remember reading somewhere an apt-gettable or debian-specific
> project for clustering.  Rolling my own from openmosix is a pain.
> 
> The CPU clustering is easy with the right kernel recompile, but I
> would like to use the hard disks on multiple machines on the network
> as something akin to a RAID-5 array, and have one large, redundant
> mount available.  This is part of some experimental medical systems
> trials, and may have up to 10's or 100's of machines, each with 40+
> GB hard disks.  A user-mode application should automatically
> rebuild/resize the array if a given machine went down or was powered
> off.
> 
> Does anyone know of any projects to do this?  A focus on Debian and
> apt-gettable packages strongly preferred!
> 
> Bob

Are you looking for clustering as in Beowolf??

http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/beowulf/tutorial/building.html



Kenward
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