Is there interest in a talk on clustering?

[Madison Kelly]

Yanni Chiu wrote:
> Madison Kelly wrote:
>> Noted, I'll keep the Xen portion to a minimum or out all together. My 
>> only real interest with Xen at this point was to introduce the 
>> networking aspect of Xen in a cluster, but if Xen has been covered, 
>> then I may not need to bring it up.
> 
> +1 on the clustering talk, and agree that Xen is a separate topic.
> 
> Would a bunch of old x86 boxes, plus an old network hub, be enough 
> hardware to set up a cluster sandbox?

Thanks for the input! Xen will definitely be set aside.

As for the hardware, unfortunately, probably not. One of the "gotcha's" 
I ran into was not paying attention to the right kind of hardware. I'll 
need mainoards with IPMI/Lightsout type controllers.

Madi
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