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One-Machine Linux Cluster

Posted by chrisd on from the chroot-is-so-old-skool dept.

An AC wrote: Forget Beowulf ? clusters, Jacques Gelinas has made available a kernel patch to enable many virtual servers running on the same machine, even the same kernel. Read his original message posted to the Linux kernel list." Imagine what this will mean for hosting companies...

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  1. Re:bah by pyite · · Score: 2, Funny

    "a cluster of clusters" sounds awfully like an array of arrays which is a multi-dimensional array. Hmm... A multi-dimensional cluster perhaps?

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  2. Isn't this sorta the opposite... by josquint · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... of clustering. Its... slicing your box up...

    1. Re:Isn't this sorta the opposite... by sharkey · · Score: 3, Funny

      Its... slicing your box up...

      It even makes Julienne child processes!

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  3. Re:This is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    if now only they would take
    the concepts of having three branches ( RELEASE,STABLE,CURRENT) to the kernel...


    (2.0, 2.2, 2.4)
  4. Re:Beaowulf not the target audience by PD · · Score: 5, Funny

    IBM is already running 15000+ linux servers (seperate kernel and all) on a single iron ..


    They're running that on an iron? My god, technology is moving so fast now. They've skipped right over the toaster.

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  5. Re:bah by utahjazz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah! Let's take single machine, split it into 4 logical machines, and then combine them into 1 logical machine! DOH!