[ Thanks to Bill
Greenwood for this link. ]
“The project, being worked on by the Linux Cluster Cabal, aims
to bring clustering to Linux. Clustering technology lets users
harness multiple servers together to make one high-performance
server. Originally created by Digital Equipment Corp…to give
minicomputers the power of mainframes, it has extended into other
arenas, including Unix.”
“The LCC is drafting a clustering architecture aimed at breaking
the performance ceiling of today’s commercial Unix-based clusters.
The group aims to build a Linux cluster that could support up
to 1,024 systems, or nodes, and do it much more cheaply than
current high-end Unix clusters…“
“There’s no point working for clustering that stops at 100
nodes,” said Cabal member Larry McVoy, who led Sun Microsystems
Inc.’s first clustering initiative and is now president of BitMover
Inc. “In eighteen months to two years, the dozen or so clustering
initiatives on Linux will be dead,” he predicted.”