Is there interest in a talk on clustering?

[Darryl Moore]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> Yanni Chiu wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 


Errm, setting Xen aside as a discussion for another day does not mean
you can't use it now for a sandbox.

I set up quite a nice sandbox with vmware for my own cluster experiments.

Now of course you lose some of the drama by not having two separate
boxes and a big knife switch that sparks when to apply a remove power,
so you can toggle the power in some mad scientist kind of a way.
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