Building A Remote Cluster With Storm Linux?

b0nk3d asks: "Hi, I work at a computer lab and would like to set up a remote login cluster. I have 4 Pentium Pro and I'm running Storm Linux on them. Do you think it'd be efficient to do a load balancing schema or a process sharing cluster? Also are there any recommended distributed file systems that would work well with small 2-6 gig drives that these machines have so that I could create a virtual volume?"

Comments

What are you trying to achieve?

[booch]

When creating a cluster, you want to have a clear goal in mind. A cluster combines the resources of several machines, making them appear as one machine. What resources do you want to combine? Do the machines have to appear as a single machine to reach that goal?

Beowulf would be a good solution if you want to combine computational power, but your programs must be written for a parallel processing API.

Linux Virtual Servers is a decent solution if you want to implement network services such as a web server. There are commercial products that can do this as well. (Alteon boxes do it in hardware, TurboLinux has a software product.)

If you're trying to combine the systems into one big server that you can log into, I don't think that there is anything that can do that.