LinuxPlanet: Case Study: Clusters and Image Processing, Part II | Linux Today

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

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 25, 2002

“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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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