[NTLUG:Discuss] RE: Practice with clustering at home?

[Kevin Hulse]

Quoting "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org>:

> Burton Strauss <Burton_Strauss at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Danger Leaping Lemurs: Bryan, you saw the letters U S and B
> > and jumped to the wrong conclusion.  And started off
> > flogging deceased equines per usual.
>
> Many people have not been exposed to FireWire, and only USB,
> because of marketing.  I wanted to point that out.
>
> Skip it if you don't care.  But many people come to the
> conclusion that because FireWire can be used in a
> multitargetted environment, USB should be able to as well.
>
> > What Thomas was really asking is for information on using
> > FireWire for a low-end cluster.
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> There are _lots_ of solutions that do.
>
> > (2) Pointers:
> > Oracle has a couple of examples posted, the older (9) one
> > at

    There are plenty of references on the web for "get your
feet wet" type Oracle RAC systems that are dirt cheap. You
can use them for ideas even if RAC isn't your thing.

> > http://www.oraclenotes.com/articles/RacLinuxFirewire.htm
> > and 10g at
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac10g.html
> > which has more details re hardware config.
>
> Expect _massive_data_loss_.  Again, FireWire was _not_
> designed for multi-targetting, only multi end-device
> transfers.

     Unless you are running some sort of production server, this is
ENTIRELY irrelevant. Data loss is infact intolerable as is degredated
performance.

     If you're being cheap, you might also want to look into NAS. A
small NFS server is going to be dirt cheap. It will perform like crap
but it will be dirt cheap get you to the point where you can start
dabbling.

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