“SGI and Linux software provider SuSE Linux have announced a
joint engineering project to bring Iris FailSafe, SGI’s
high-availability clustering software, to the Linux operating
system.”
“Iris FailSafe running on Linux will enable a user to link two
or more servers together so that one transparently picks up the
computing load should the other fail.”
“An Iris FailSafe cluster running on Linux will remove any point
of failure and allow applications to increase availability to the
level required for mission-critical data-center operations. With
input and co-operation from the Open Source Software community, SGI
and SuSE expect to have software available by the second half of
2000.”