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Looking for OS that supports clustering.

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tomrizzo

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I heard about clustering here in the forums, and was wondering if any microsoft OSes support clustering. I think most likely they probably don't, so if that is the case. Could someone reccomend a prog or another OS that does, and thanks for any answers in advance.
 
Definitely 2000 Advanced Server as already mentioned. I believe that .net will have even better cluster support.
 
Linux does...Its a beowolf cluster (I might have beowolf spelled wrong 🙂 ). About $3000 less than the Microsoft solution 😉

I've never done it, but I know it can be done.
 
Solaris and IRIX should also do it just fine, not to mention FreeBSD (the special effects for the Matrix were calculated on a 32 node FreeBSD cluster 😉)
 


<< Definitely 2000 Advanced Server as already mentioned. I believe that .net will have even better cluster support. >>



there was an article on slashdot maybe a month ago about windows clustering. i guess windows is great if you're willing to shell out all the cash in licensing.
 
"I could make /dev/yourmom link to my porn partition. -Buddha Bart "

That's got to be the funniest sig I've seen in a long time.


To keep this thread on track you could go read up on Turbolinux's EnFuzion 7.0. I don't really know anything about it, but it seems like it might be up your alley.

 
Advanced Server does a 32 node clustering. linux does. I have no idea how to do it. Solaris, Novell are also good choices
 
Thanks for all the answers, I already have a copy of Win2kAS, but I think I might have been asking the wrong question, I think I meant more along the lines of load-balancing, having multiple machines working on the same problem, but thanks again guys.
 
Windows 2000 Advanced Server does.

I believe it's only failover clustering, meaning one box dies another takes over. Not what most people mean when they say clustering.

If you want real clustering you'll need something like a Beowulf cluster (using Linux) and an app written to use it, or a NUMA box and an OS that supports it, Linux support is early but works alright (think someone reported a ~10 second kernel compile with NUMA) but since you're already paying out the nose for the hardware you might as well get the OS they designed for it too =)
 
You have to better define what you mean by clustering.
Do you mean a fail-over cluster?
Load balancing server cluster?
Computational (Beowulf) cluster?
 

If you want load balancing, take a look at the Anandtech servers article. He goes into depth on how they do their load balancing.
 
If you could get one of those hardware load balancers that sits between the router and the servers, no need for the server to support it. Of you could do basic round robin DNS, which isn't great but is better than nothing.
 


<< If you could get one of those hardware load balancers that sits between the router and the servers, no need for the server to support it. Of you could do basic round robin DNS, which isn't great but is better than nothing. >>



One of the problems with these dedicated load balancing thingies is that they can be loud. I saw a thread on another forum where someone was tracking down a *REALLY* wierd alarm and it ended up being the load balancing equipment.
 
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