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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:wow by foobar104 · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    (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.