Sys Admin is an excelent way to describe the core aspects of configuring Gentoo for both HP and HA.
Additionally explaining the best wasy to provide failover for HPC is also useful.
Gentoo Cluster Handbook
I. Sys Admin Requirements - What reader must know before moving forward
(maybe describe clustering types here?)
i) Networking options etc.
ii) Disked vs Diskless
iii) more...
II. SysAdmin for Clusters - tools/support servers/etc
III. HA Clustering -
i) web/email
ii) failover/etc
iii) mySQL clusters
IV. HPC Clustering - batch processing/etc
i) MPICH
ii) Distributed Compiling? distcc
iii) Distributed rendering pvmpovray
V. Intro to MPI - Merge the other MPI howto and add some?
We need to cover all the different methods and possibly a comparison.
Opinions?
Hanni
On 11/04/06, busby@edoceo.com <busby@edoceo.com> wrote:
> Hanni Ali wrote:
[ Snip ]
> Maybe a split in HA-Clustering, HPC-clustering and large-scale sysadmin
> with gentoo.
> The large-scale sysadmin is overlapping for both, HA can be usefull in
> smaller setups, HPC is seldomly used in small setup AFAIK
[ Snip ]
I agree; different topics different sections.
I'd like to see something like:
Gentoo Cluster Handbook
I. Sys Admin Requirements - What reader must know before moving forward
(maybe describe clustering types here?)
II. SysAdmin for Clusters - tools/support servers/etc
III. HA Clustering - web/email failover/etc
IV. HPC Clustering - batch processing/etc
V. Intro to MPI - Merge the other MPI howto and add some?
And of course each volume is full of useful information
/djb
--
gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org mailing list
--
E-mail: hanni.ali@gmail.com
Mobile: 07985580147
Website: www.ainkaboot.co.uk