Re: Slightly off-topic: Any good/bad experiences withHigh-Availability Linux clusters ?

[Randy Grimshaw <rgrimsha () syr edu>]

TurboLinux offers a high end "clustered" solution. Thats all I know so go
to their web site and read it. Buyer beware however that "clustering" has
taken on "buzz-word" status and no longer has any relevant meaning. I
reference Novell's use of the term as an example, which for them means
something like "rules based failover".

<><Randall Grimshaw, IT-Engineer, Syracuse University, 315-443-5779

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Mark E. Drummond wrote:

> Michael Erskine wrote:
> > Undoubtedly you have chased down the links at www.beosulf.org.  There are
> > some straight forward documents there that detail various setups.
>
> A Beowulf is not an HA cluster. It is a compute cluster. The nodes of a
> Beowulf are used in combination to build massively parallel processors
> for tackling computationaly intense problems. They are not built to
> provide HA for web services and such.
>
> HA on linux is still greatly "in the works". Buy a Sun cluster.
>
> -- 
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