web farm -newbie

[Fernando Duran]

Hi,

Very quickly, a "web farm" is a group of servers to
support one web site, typically because you have a lot
of traffic (load balancing), or you want to get rid of
a single point of failure (reliability) or both.

The topics you mention (Openmosix, OSCAR, MPI) are for
parallel processing (running a program in multiple 
CPUs/memory, typically number crunching apps like
scientific apps or image rendering); it's a very
different topic.

For a web site/app you probably want to look into load
balancing, replication etc, not parallel processing.

Fernando

--- Jose <jtc-vS8X3Ji+8Wg6e3DpGhMbh2oLBQzVVOGK at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> I am looking to learn how to setup a web farm, I
> have been reading 
> reviews about some books like:
> 
> Linux Enterprise Cluster by Karl Kopper
> 
> High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks,
> OpenMosix, and MPI
> 
> Building Linux Clusters  David H.M. Spector
> 
> Linux High Performance Clusters [Import] (Paperback)
> by Alex Vrenios (Author)
> 
> I got a couple of computer I rescue from the job
> dump and I would like 
> to build a mini cluster, but not sure where to
> start, could you guys 
> advice a newbie on this matters?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> J
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