i heard on another site about linux clustering. does anyone know anything about it or knows a site a can go to to learn more? all i know is you use linux to make a few computers act as one.

sounds pretty cool...

Clustering does indeed involve combining the power of your computers into one super giant. Almost as powerful as the Cray! Only joking! The way Linux computers do this is though a project called beowulf. That's about as much as I know, the workings of it are beyond me. As far as the website goes have a look at http://www.linux.org and have a look at thier projects section. Or somebody else will know it.

I do know that it is very powerfull, many universities/companies employ the project to calculate difficult maths things.

Oh yeah! I suppose you could try http://www.beowulf.org

[Edited by CragStar on 03-01-2001 at 10:16 AM]

There are several kinds of "clusters".

Parallel Processing clusters.. like Beowulf. I know of one or two that are made of 1000+ nodes at government thinktanks, research facilities, and universities.
Check out http://www.beowulf.org/ and http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Parall...ing-HOWTO.html

High Availability clusters .. for example, several nodes acting as one web server to provide realtime failover.
Check out http://linux-ha.org/


There are also Load Balancing clusters which sort of distribute network traffic across several boxes serving the same purpose. I don't have a URL handy for that.