Is there interest in a talk on clustering?

[Madison Kelly]

James Knott wrote:
> 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.

He's talking about for demo reasons. Now, I agree, in this day even 
cheap switches are easily had. However, for demo purposes "Does it 
work?" is enough. Unfortunately, as I said to him, I need mainboards 
with IPMI capabilities.

I've priced out what I need for my own training purposes, so it's just a 
question of money before I can get it. I am also waiting until I've got 
as many bugs squashed as I can in a fully virtualized environment. This 
way, when I do invest in the hardware, it will be a relatively short (I 
hope!) time before I can put it to use properly.

Madi
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