LinuxPlanet: Case Study: Clusters and Image Processing, Part II

"Mark and some of the other technical folk at ImageLinks were experimenting with Linux at home. They began wondering how the application would run on a set of Linux boxes instead of on the SGIs. Their theory was that they would not make much of a gain. However, if the result was comparable, a move to Linux could save them thousands of dollars a year on software and licenses.

"After making their plans, now they had to implement their solutions, which included:

• "Porting the Application
• "Implementing the Beowulf Cluster at ImageLinks
• "Implementing an LVS Cluster with Red Hat Linux
• "Making Open Source Profits
• "Creating a Kickstart Automated Installation File for a Cluster
• "Creating an NFS Installation Server
• "Implementing LVS Clusters with ssh..."

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