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From: jgaliett@nsdux1.netsysdev.telerate.com (Joseph T. Galietto)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,relcom.fido.ru.unix
Subject: Re: UN*X cluster on Intel platform?
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 20:10:30 GMT
Organization: Dow Jones Telerate
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stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) wrote:
>Hello Wes Brown (wes@prozac.student.cwru.edu); quoting you from relcom.fido.ru.unix <49j9vs$4fu@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> :
>: What do you want to do? {I am sorry VMS was before my time}
>: We have LINUX running in what could be considered a cluster configuration.
>: One 80386 25MHz is a dedicated machine. There are other machines that mount
>: its disk space. Those machines are owned by other students that also run DOS
>: and other useless excusses for operating systems.
> No, "clustering' means something more than simple NFS mounting.
> I mean that several machines can run (even more than) one task
> in parallel, synchronizing them with some kind of Message Passing
> Interface, with a shared (or divided into several chunks)
> dataset.
> For an example of FreeBSD solution I've recently (shame on me! :)
> discover see http://www.geli.com and http://www.netlib.org/pvm3
> I wonder if even more sophisticated approach is implementable:
> have several motherbards (each has it's own private disk space,
> too) chained with a single SCSI-2 ribbon cable,
> and a shared disk space on the same cable, too; while messages
> are passed via Fast Ethernet, for example, all access to a shared
> data set is done via a SCSI-2 bus. That might be a very fail-safe
> configuration! :-)
>: Wes
>: ---
>: Wes Brown
>: ewb4@po.cwru.edu wes@prozac.student.cwru.edu
>: http://prozac.cwru.edu/wes/About.me.html
>: KB8TGR
>--
> With best regards -- Andrew Stesin.
> +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560
> An undocumented feature is a coding error.
I suggest you look at the new Stratus Computer product called RADIO.
It is a packaged cluster whcih can run either uxixware or NT. Stratus
uses its ISIS software to ensure reliablity.
see the stratus web page http://www.status.com/
Joe