[Cialug] Clusters

[Renegade Muskrat]

It can mean one of many things. The meaning that comes to mind first for me
is a group of Linux machines configured (with PVM, MPI, or Mosix) such that
a parallel processing job started on one of the machines is automatically
distributed among all of the machines. For example, if you had a cluster of
4 machines, each with 1 CPU and 512 MB RAM if you started a parallel job
that was compiled properly it would run as if it was on a single 4 CPU
machine with 2 GB RAM. Another type of cluster is a load-balancing cluster
used for web serving. An example of that type of cluster would be a group
of machines set such that when someone went to a web site hosted by them
their request would get directed to one of the machines, but not
necessarily the same machine as a different client who asked for the same
document.

At 23:32 8-20-02 -0400, you wrote:
>What does it mean to build a Linux cluster?
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