From owner-freebsd-cluster Sat Jun 15 12:47:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from rootshell.be (phenix.rootshell.be [195.74.192.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656A137B408 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:47:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from constant@localhost) by rootshell.be (8.11.5/8.11.5) id g5FJlBS16245 for freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:47:11 +0200 Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:47:11 +0200 From: John Constantine To: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Application cluster Message-ID: <20020615214711.A17779@phenix.rootshell.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm planning on building a cluster from a few machines, which are by todays standards considered to be obsolete, to serve X, mozilla and open office. This cluster would also double up as the main server and web cache(squid), off of which a bunch of diskless machines would boot. Have any of you done something similar ? What software did you use and why ? Any positive/negative experiences you would like to share ? Hope that you can help me. Thanks, --John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message