clustering software for fedora

[John Wendel]

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 10:23 am, Karl Vogel wrote:

> In article <400E7042.6090804 at users.sourceforge.net>, WipeOut wrote:
> > Asad Javid wrote:
> >>Im looking to implement a cluster on fedora. Is there a software
> >> for fedora for free. How is the performance.
> >
> > Take a look at openosix.. I used it once to setup a cluster of 4
> > PC's to create a bunch of MP3's faster.. It worked like a dream..
> >
> > Just a note.. Make sure you app is multi-process (not just
> > multi-threaded) and that is does not make use of shared memory,
> > otherwise your cluster will not migrate processes to the other
> > nodes in the cluster..
> >
> > This is of course a processing cluster, if you are after a high
> > availibility cluster or a load balancing clister you may want to
> > look at software like "heartbeat", "LVM (Linux Virtual Machine)"
> > and "openssi" (I think thats what it was)..
>
> OpenSSI [1] is indeed the correct name, however it's currently only
> available for RH9.. (FC1 is probably also possible with modest
> work, but FC2 will be a whole different story as that is going to
> use the new 2.6 kernel)
>
> just for the record.. OpenSSI V1.0 will be released any day now.
>
>
> [1] - http://www.openssi.org


You might try http://openmosix.sourceforge.net

Recently updated to work with 2.6

Regards,

John