FreeBSD Cluster options?

[sera]

I'm looking at clustering two FreeBSD boxes. I'm looking for options. I'm not finding much info / examples of this on the net. Suggestions / Howto's welcome!

My search so far has determined that OpenMosix and Mosix are not compatible with FreeBSD.

The purpose of this cluster is to analyze of seismic data as well as serving the data. We think we can wrap our apps with perl parallel wrapper. Most of the jobs are Batch in nature.



Sera

 

[Wishdiak]

sera,

Ucarp seems to provide failover by allowing two hosts to share an IP address, but it doesn't seem to allow true clustering.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/net/ucarp/pkg-descr

Wishdiak
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[kHz]

I believe there is clustering software in the ports.

 

[sera]

ClusterIT - looks promising!

http://www.garbled.net/clusterit.html

Sera

 

[rayen99]

Try checking out MPICH and LAM/MPI. I haven't used them myself but here's the homepages of couple of budget clustering projects based on FreeBSD and MPICH.

<a href=

http://blizzard.rwic.und.edu/~nordlie/miniwulf/>Miniwulf</a>

<a href=

http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/>Mini-Cluster</a>

Hope those help.

 

[rayen99]

My bad, sorry about those ugly links