How to setup clusters

[Alma J Wetzker]

>> "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
>> Fri, 08 Aug 2003 15:26:25 -0700
>> On 08/08/03 15:04, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
>>
>>> Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux cluster.  Does 
>>> anyone have any experience/advice/interesting opinions about doing 
>>> so? I am wondering if there is a good distro or any other 
>>> wonderfulnes that will make the thing fun and last the semester.
>>
>>
>> What do you plan to use it for?  'clusters' have *ALOT* of different 
>> meanings and uses, and that is heavily dependent on how you set one up.

We plan on using it to learn how to setup clusters.

My personal interest is distributed applications, so a virtual machine 
running a database would be good.  But we don't have the disk space to 
make it worthwhile.  I hope to use more than one configuration before we 
are done.

     -- Alma