[K12OSN] K12LTSP and clustering

[Sudev Barar]

On 07/03/06, Edmond Wong <ewong at chinooksedge.ab.ca> wrote:
> Hi, at work we have a few older machines in the range of P2's and P3's
> and no money for a server. So I was considering building a cluster to
> run K12LTSP. My question is does K12LTSP benefit from being run on a
> cluster? I've found articles on how to setup K12LTSP with OpenMosix or
> Beowulf, but no one confirming the results of doing it. It will
> definitely be better than running it on a single computer, but does
> K12LTSP scale well enough on a cluster that it can replace a good server?

K12LTSP can be clustered with OpenMosix and you can use the graphic
tools in OpenMosix to see the lloads and processes being transefrred.
Problem is that the appliations you want to run should be "aware". In
the past I had build this cluster of a P4 and two P3's but an
OpenOffice document that was open died the moment it got shifted from
one node to another on the cluster. I did not get chance to go much
deeper on this due to hardware not being available.
If you do go ahead and get to a useability point do post your experience.
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Sudev Barar
Learning Linux