Greetings, On 7/18/10, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: >> On 7/17/10, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear Les, > Or did you mean that CentOS should have an equivalent to match the Ubuntu > configuration? Exactly. and I poised to do that as Centos x86_64 was attached thanks to this month's Linux for You magazine's usual attachment CD/DVD. > You probably could, but it would be a lot more work. Of course, and I am willing to share my work with this list along with whatever income that incurr with it. (Moderator: Kindly hange the subject line restrict my posting rights if I have erred) > > Distributed (super) computing normally involves techniques that break the work > up into independent units. If a node doesn't complete a unit it can be given to > a different node. I know that. > > Storage, on the other hand, needs to be reliable. The hadoop project is an > approach at distribution, but the interface is hard to deal with. > Indeed and of course. Regards, Rajagopal