Is there interest in a talk on clustering?

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--- On Fri, 12/18/09, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Is there interest in a talk on clustering?
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Friday, December 18, 2009, 12:29 PM
> 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.
> 

For the demo, you should be able to run the cluster within a virtual network. I had run a cluster within a Virtualbox network.

> Madi
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