Hi Rob I have desperately been trying to find an article I read last month that would seem to fit your ideal nicely Rob and also keep the geek in you interested.
The project was based on LTSP and worked in a kinda clustering sort of way. If memory serves each client on the network as it had spare CPU capacity would allow some of this capacity to be used to bolster up the main servers - obviously the clients being proper PCs together with a high bandwidth interconnect. It may well have been as a result of a posting here as I have a nagging suspision that it was detailed somewhere on schoolforge.net, or similar. I'll have some lubrication later on tonight and see if the grey cells can be bullied into working. E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Travis Sent: 29 January 2008 17:12 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenSSI on Ubuntu (with LTSP thrown in for goodmeasure) Rob Beard wrote: > [...] > I've found details on OpenSSI which appears to support LTSP on Fedora > Core 3 although the details are a bit lacking. I was wondering if > anyone had had a play around with OpenSSI on Ubuntu, and even better > OpenSSI and LTSP on the same installation of Ubuntu? Hello, Rob. OpenSSI is intended to make a group of systems look like one system (SSI means Single System Image). The idea is that the group is managed and used as one system. I use openMosix for a similar purpose on a 92-node Beowulf cluster under Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS. However, this is a 2.4 kernel, with no SATA support. The deb's are available here if you're interested: http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/openmosix I'm evaluating alternatives to openMosix at present, because there has been an end-of-life announcement for openMosix. Moshe Bar, the founder of the openMosix project, has decided to end the project because he believes that large SMP machines eliminate the need for SSI clusters. Not everyone agrees with him about that... I'm particularly interested in Kerrighed as an alternative: http://www.kerrighed.org I think you might find that a DNS 'round-robin' and a server farm fits your requirements better than SSI. The problem with SSI is the process migration overhead on a single 'login' server. You also have to bear in mind that not all processes can be migrated. Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rowett Research Institute, | http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, | phone:+44 (0)1224 712751 Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK. | fax:+44 (0)1224 716687 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
