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One-Machine Linux Cluster
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...
Slightly off topic, but does anyone know: i got two machines, duron 850, and a pentium 450, with basic cluster operations, what programs can actually cluster? can i cluster these two computers together to form a better computer for a certain task? I want to try and put them together, and see how many websites hits they could take before they fall over. Thanks in Advanced Peter Revill
Microsoft IIS is to webserving as KFC is to healthy eating
Is it just me, or is this a dumb idea? I mean, why bother with a cluster if you aren't exploiting some OTHER computer's resources. You might as well just run the job directly under Linux--you'd get the same performance (probably better).
Whoa, you're really trolling for karma, aren't you?
Microsoft has decided to cluster-enable the BSOD so that response times for rebooting can be quicker.
Whoa, you're really trolling for karma, aren't you?
BZZZT! Thanx for playing.
Does no good. I hit 50 a few weeks go back. I've 'gained' 5 points in moderation in the last week, but my Karma count stays at 50 - which is how the system is designed to work.
Guess I was just restating the obvious, for the 3 people here who don't 'get' Open Source.
Also, I think this is cool!.
"that's not encryption - it's a new perl script that I'm working on..." - from some Matrix parody
The funniest thing I have heard on slashdot !!!
How many times have you heard friends say, "We need a beuwolf cluster of those"??
(Goodbye, karma.)
I know this is completely off-topic, but here it is anyway.
Your understanding of the prefix "meta-" is incomplete. In addition to indicating syntactic self-reference (see Hofstader), it can also indicate semantic self-reference (see... well, Hofstader; he talks about this, too, in his discussion of GOD: God Over Djinn).
SGI has a device for connecting crossbar routers together to form large single-system-image computers. It's called a metarouter:a router for routers.
Likewise, a cluster of clusters would be properly called a metacluster. Since "Beowulf" is commonly synonymous with "cluster," the term "meta-beowulf" is pretty much correct, even though it makes me cringe.
Just to mention one error that shows up on almost every page, "independance" isn't the way to spell "independence". And yes, I know that he's Canadian, but I'm pretty sure that the British spelling is the same.
Nothing for 6-digit uids?