Is there interest in a talk on clustering?

[Madison Kelly]

Darryl Moore wrote:
> 
> 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.

Dear god, I am soooo stealing that blade switch idea!

Madi
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