<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Take a look at lighttpd proxy balancer <a href="http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3AModProxy">http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3AModProxy</a><div><br></div><div>An that postgresql thing that syncs multiple database across a network.</div><div><br><div><div><div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>---</div><div><b>Myles Braithwaite</b></div><div>myles-Ufssi81vwmMSKvlGVnxYRVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Please consider the trees before print this email.</span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On 30-May-08, at 3:33 PM, Fernando Duran wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br><br>Very quickly, a "web farm" is a group of servers to<br>support one web site, typically because you have a lot<br>of traffic (load balancing), or you want to get rid of<br>a single point of failure (reliability) or both.<br><br>The topics you mention (Openmosix, OSCAR, MPI) are for<br>parallel processing (running a program in multiple <br>CPUs/memory, typically number crunching apps like<br>scientific apps or image rendering); it's a very<br>different topic.<br><br>For a web site/app you probably want to look into load<br>balancing, replication etc, not parallel processing.<br><br>Fernando<br><br>--- Jose <jtc-vS8X3Ji+8Wg6e3DpGhMbh2oLBQzVVOGK@public.gmane.org> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi List,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am looking to learn how to setup a web farm, I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">have been reading <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">reviews about some books like:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Linux Enterprise Cluster by Karl Kopper<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">OpenMosix, and MPI<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Building Linux Clusters David H.M. Spector<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Linux High Performance Clusters [Import] (Paperback)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">by Alex Vrenios (Author)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I got a couple of computer I rescue from the job<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">dump and I would like <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to build a mini cluster, but not sure where to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">start, could you guys <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">advice a newbie on this matters?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">thanks in advance<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">J<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://gtalug.org/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">below 80 columns<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">How to UNSUBSCRIBE:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br>---------------------<br>Fernando Duran<br>http://www.fduran.com<br><br><br> __________________________________________________________________<br>Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now at<br>http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.<br>--<br>The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/<br>TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<br>How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>