On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 15:30, Alvin Oga wrote: > > Calyth said: > >[snip] > -- if the system must survive a "dead pc" ... use clusters
In the Linux world, I know of only 2 ways to use clusters: 1. with Oracle databases, as database servers 2. in supercomputing (Beowulf, OpenMosix, etc.) In the OpenVMS world, there are shared-disk clusters, and it's buried deep in the OS, so *any* program that uses the VMS RTLs, no matter what it is (text editor, email, java, database, etc, etc), is cluster- aware. So if you are on NODE1 and it crashes, you fail-over to NODE2, and continue from your last checkpoint. Of course, NODE2 is now 1/2 as fast, since there are 2x as many users on it... So, other than those 2 examples, how do you do clustering in Linux? -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | Spit in one hand, and wish for peace in the other. | | Guess which is more effective... | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
