Re: Desktopcluster

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Yah.  Blades with MP cpus or multi-core capable cpus on them.  Just
>     a blade server, then.   The difference between blade based clustering
>     and the type of clustering that we want to do is that we want to be
>     able to cluster efficiently over a LAN or WAN (i.e. not depend on an
>     extremely high speed link between the nodes in the cluster).  That's
>     what the cache coherency infrastructure is going to be all about.

Hmm,

from time to time I try to imagine how it would be when DragonFly's 
clustering became reality.

Is the goal to be able to just stick in a new DragonFly box and then the 
power of the "cluster machine" increases? I mean, I wonder if there 
would be any configuration requirements for new machines in the cluster.

Or would it be enough to just stick a network card into a random 
machine, compile with "options CLUSTER", connect to the network and 
voila? :)

Sascha

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