Building Linux Clusters with Cdrom
David H. M. Spector, Mark Stone · O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. eBooks · 2000
From the Publisher: One approach building supercomputers is interconnect any number of common PCs using an interface like Ethernet. This method, called clustering or Beowulf clustering, produces very inexpensive powerful computers whose capabilities would previously have cost millions of dollars. Now for a few tens of thousands of dollars, very powerful computers can be built for any number of computing solutions. From scientific applications transaction processing, clustering technology provides an affordable, scalable computing solution. Building Linux Clusters introduces the reader the basics of cluster installation and configuration, and comes complete with a CD full of cluster installation programs and tools for parallel programming. Focusing on the how to of building a Linux cluster, this book is a hands-on guide for people new clustering. It is the definitive guide scaling Linux for scientific and enterprise applications.