Is there interest in a talk on clustering?

[James Knott]

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?
>
Get rid of the hub and use a switch.  A hub will really kill network 
performance when you have a lot of traffic.

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