[CentOS] CentOS cluster solution

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Dec 14 16:30:37 UTC 2010


On 12/14/2010 4:41 AM, David S. wrote:
> Hi Timo,
> I mean parallel cloud computing, do you have solution for this case?
>

There are many different meanings for terms like that.  One is a set of 
resources that you can easily carve into virtual machines that then act 
like unrelated physical machines except for the ease of cloning and 
migrating them.  Another is a scientific supercomputer that can solve 
certain types of problems with specialized libraries that can divide 
that task into work units that run on different hosts and collate the 
results.  This tends to be limitied and difficult, so another approach 
is to use a scalable database where you push everything that needs to 
run in parallel into a 'map/reduce' function.  That tends to be 
difficult by itself, and handled differently by the different 
implementations.  If that's what you are interested in, I'd look at 
'riak' first (http://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak)and their 
comparisons to others to understand the tradeoffs in approaches.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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