FreeBSD clustering

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:23:58 -0400
> From: Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
> 
> Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Is there any FreeBSD support for clustering? I know several companies
> > make cluster controllers for Linux systems, but I have no idea if anyone
> > has looked into whether these could be used with FreeBSD.
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "clustering"?
> 
> There are different resource available, depening on what network service
> you need to cluster.  mod_backhand for Apache allows multiple web servers
> to act as one (for example)
> 
> Last I looked, everything that I found available for Linux was also
> available for FreeBSD, but it's been a little while since I've explored
> the concept of "processing farms".
> 
> If you state what you're trying to accomplish, it will give folks a
> better idea of how to answer.

We are looking at cluster as a high availability compute box for
statistical analysis. Our stats guy thinks having a cluster that he can
send different bits of the data analysis would be an excellent solution
as his operations are quite atomic. 

My boss has also suggested that is might be suitable for our DNS servers
as they need to be very high availability, but this would be of
secondary importance.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634