Hello Mitja,
>From your description below I understand exactly where you come from (I have been there too ;-) If I am correct than you have been using mainly Windows until now and find Linux pretty cool and was thinking now about setting up this "community project". First of all, thats a nice idea. Now lets walk through this in slow motion, shall we ? First decide (more specifically) what services each machine should REALLY offer. Dont try to do all in one go. 1) Do you really need a cluster ? It requires quite some knowledge to set it up and also maintain it. 2) Perhaps you should "Tune" your spec a bit so that it becomes manageable by a single admin. I believe what you want is a setup similar to this one. - Machine A: Fileserver - Machine B: Web Proxy + Remote desktop server Other machines (4 left): (Clients) Version a) The Clients have the Applications installed locally Version b) The Clients Connect by Remote Desktop sharing to Machine B As you can see both variants have their advantages in regard to maintenance, memory, network usage etc. I wouldnt want to use a video editing application via Remote desktop sharing, while textediting could even be done in a web interface. If you really want to go for a cluster I would recommend "Linux Enterprise Cluster: Build a Highly Available Cluster with Commodity Hardware and Free Software (Paperback) by Karl Kopper " ISBN 1593270364. But let that not fool you that you will need quite some time to fully understand what you can do and cant do on Linux - especially with a cluster setup, however the book should help to jumpstart the ambitious effort you have. BTW: Where in Slovenia is it going to be ? Best regards Nils Valentin Tokyo / Japan http://www.be-known-online.com > Hello > > I would like to ask for some advice. I just need some basic guidelines > as I'm quite new to Linux and never took care of more than one computer. > I will then google around for details or ask in a separate thread. Some > link would be greatly appreciated. > I'm taking care of six new computers running Linux in a (also new) > multimedia centre. All of them are publicly available and anyone can use > them. Now users can just surf the web, but I want to offer them more. If > someone needs to write texts and do other things, I would like set-up a > user account for him, so he can do (almost) all he wants. > Now the questions: > 1. I was thinking to take one computer, make a file server (maybe also > web-server) out of it and replace it with an old one running as thin > client. Is there some other way of making a users /home/user directory > available regardless of which computer he is using? > 2. In the centre we do a lot of video editing using Premiere on window$. > I know some Linux video editing software but the problem is that just > one computer is powerful enough to do the job. If I make cluster out of > few computers then the thing would be strong enough. The thing I'm not > sure is: can I use a normal software or it should be specially made for > clusters? > 3. If I make cluster out of all six computers I would get some kind of > mini-supercomputer. Question: can computers work in a cluster and at the > same time one of them is used for surfing the web and another one is > used for video editing, thus in need of more resources? > 4. If someone has some other idea on how to use this six computer I > would realy like to hear it. In the centre we are trying to promote > Linux and other Open Source software and make resources we have as > useful to the people as possible. > > thanks > > -- > Mitja Podreka > http://mitja.kizej.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
