Re: [gentoo-cluster] High-Availability Howto for Gentoo

[Hanni Ali]

Sys Admin is an excelent way to describe the core aspects of configuring
Gentoo for both HP and HA.

Additionally explaining the best wasy to provide failover for HPC is also
useful.

Gentoo Cluster Handbook
 I. Sys Admin Requirements - What reader must know before moving forward
 (maybe describe clustering types here?)
    i) Networking options etc.
    ii) Disked vs Diskless
    iii) more...
 II. SysAdmin for Clusters - tools/support servers/etc

 III. HA Clustering -
   i) web/email
   ii) failover/etc
   iii) mySQL clusters
 IV. HPC Clustering - batch processing/etc
   i) MPICH
   ii) Distributed Compiling? distcc
   iii) Distributed rendering pvmpovray
 V. Intro to MPI - Merge the other MPI howto and add some?
   We need to cover all the different methods and possibly a comparison.

Opinions?

Hanni


On 11/04/06, busby@××××××.com <busby@××××××.com> wrote:
>
> > Hanni Ali wrote:
> [ Snip ]
> > Maybe a split in HA-Clustering, HPC-clustering and large-scale sysadmin
> > with gentoo.
> > The large-scale sysadmin is overlapping for both, HA can be usefull in
> > smaller setups, HPC is seldomly used in small setup AFAIK
> [ Snip ]
>
> I agree; different topics different sections.
> I'd like to see something like:
>
> Gentoo Cluster Handbook
>   I. Sys Admin Requirements - What reader must know before moving forward
> (maybe describe clustering types here?)
> II. SysAdmin for Clusters - tools/support servers/etc
> III. HA Clustering - web/email failover/etc
> IV. HPC Clustering - batch processing/etc
>   V. Intro to MPI - Merge the other MPI howto and add some?
>
> And of course each volume is full of useful information
>
> /djb
>
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