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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">And remember that Mosix/OpenMosix was
but *a certain kind* of clustering. So is distcc, for a very
specific problem space.<br>
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These days - or at least as of 2011, which was the last time I had
my hands on/in cluster hardware - what makes a cluster a cluster
seems to be 1) application software that uses some kind of
message-passing library (like MPI IIRC) 2) optionally (it depends
on the problem space), a cluster-aware shared filesystem (possibly
to include one that combines volumes on each node, seeing as
they'll likely have perfectly good disk controllers and spaces to
put drives) 3) optionally (likewise), an appropriate network
fabric or two (if Ethernet alone won't cut it).<br>
<br>
A few years ago I had two Gentoo Linux machines connected to a
third via AoE but since at the time a cluster-aware FS wasn't
available without great pain, I just formatted the AoE volume with
ext2. Worked great on both mounted machines...until one of them
wrote, at which time things got a little crazy. :)<br>
<br>
On 7/3/15 12:10 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Openmosix is dead. However, Mosix is now $0.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 3, 2015 11:35 AM, "Raj
Wurttemberg" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:rajaw@c64.us">rajaw@c64.us</a>> wrote:<br
type="attribution">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So... The
parts are ordered Raspberry Pi cluster. I'm going to start
with just two nodes this month. Now I just need to find a
good cluster program. I would like for the systems to act as
one distributed or parallel processing computer but I'm OK to
start with a high availability cluster while I figure this
stuff out. I didn't setup our clusters at work (running VCS)
so I'm reading up on Fencing and a few other tidbits.<br>
<br>
Cluster software I have located so far:<br>
<br>
- Pacemaker<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.clusterlabs.org/" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank">http://wiki.clusterlabs.org/</a><br>
- HTCondor<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/</a><br>
- GreenTea Software<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.greenteatech.com/" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank">http://www.greenteatech.com/</a><br>
- grun<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/earonesty/grun/wiki"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/earonesty/grun/wiki</a><br>
- mpi4py<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mpi4py.scipy.org/" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank">http://mpi4py.scipy.org/</a><br>
- openMosix<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMosix"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMosix</a>
(Shut down in 2008?)<br>
- etcd<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/master/README.md"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/master/README.md</a><br>
- serf<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.serfdom.io/" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank">https://www.serfdom.io/</a><br>
- Beowulf<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://yclept.ucdavis.edu/Beowulf/aboutbeowulf.html"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://yclept.ucdavis.edu/Beowulf/aboutbeowulf.html</a><br>
<br>
This is just about to get fun. :)<br>
<br>
/Raj<br>
<br>
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