On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:55:07AM -0500, Patrick Boyer wrote:
> On 1/29/06, Gabriel George POPA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm planning to deploy a small cluster behind my firewall (for test
> > purposes). What would be the recommender program
> > to use for clustering and wht can it do? Where should I start? I have 5
> > workstations (1GHz Intel Celeron)+server 3GHz Intel P4.
> > I know several ways of "clustering", but I ask you because you might
> > know what is the best method to use with OpenBSD.
> > Oh, and what's with that picture on www.openbsd.org (lower-right corner)?
>
> What kind of cluster do you want to create? There are essentially three
> types: high availability/failover, load-balancing, and high performance
> computing. Each requires very different approaches. Let us know more about
> the problem you're trying to solve and we can give you more info.
Not to mention that it makes quite a bit of a difference what you are
running on the cluster. A highly-available firewall cluster is very
different from a high-performance cluster for scientific computing.
Joachim
