[ale] Cluster hardware fault tracking; Latest kerneldevelopment

[Jonathan Glass]

We have a turn-key cluster, and it has been a total pain.  It has never
worked correctly.  Of course, the company that made it is out of
business...

I'm a firm believer in spending the extra money to have the cluster
pre-configured and delivered, ready-to-run.  I setup my 2-node fail-over
cluster by hand, and it took too long.  

I've heard good things about Penguin Computing, but haven't purchased
anything from them yet. The Georgia Higher-Ed sales contact is Emil, and
his number is 888-736-4846.

My $0.02.

Jonathan Glass

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 16:01, Dow Hurst wrote:
> We are no longer officially in the SGI camp anymore as the software base 
> is moving toward Linux and the performance in our price range is too.  I 
> am getting a Linux workstation from Dell soon.  Plus, my boss is 
> interested in a Linux cluster in the future for our next move on 
> hardware.  I want to determine if a self built cluster is really worth 
> it compared to a vendor product that is prebuilt and preconfigured.  The 
> amount of self checking the cluster does, and the ease of 
> upgrading/expanding is really important.  SGI has the best of all worlds 
> in the Origin 2000 and now 3000 series for that stuff.  I just didn't 
> know if anyone has already researched this topic and had some thoughts 
> or links.  I know the cost factor of a cluster is way better than the 
> usual big iron but the management of hardware and software can be a big 
> load.
> Dow
> 

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