Stephen Zedalis writes:
>
> Nope, this is like you have a task that you would ordinarily handoff to a
> supercomputer such as a Cray. If you can break the computational problem
A Cray is highly overrated. It does not perform at all well if your
codes is not vectorized easily. Newer Crays are parallel MIPS boxes,
anyway, which kinda figures, since owned by SGI.
> down into small pieces, then you have each of the processors do their
> piece of the problem giving supercomputer performance at a much lower
> price. What you are talking about is a cluster server ala "NT Wolfpack".
There is a definite trend of the Beowulf into the server
cluster/transaction processing.
> Or you could use a load distributor ala "BigIP" or one of the others.
>
> On Mon, 18 May 1998, Randy Carpenter wrote:
>
> >Hmmm... would this be usable in a web server configuration? Like could I
> >have 3 or 4 machines, all connected to each other, but having a single IP
> >address for incoming requests? And, if one server crashed, the others
> >would still be up and running, and it would be invisible to the end user?
This should be possible in a Beowulf, but don't expect it to work out
of the box.
'gene
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