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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Ron G. Minnich wrote:

> well for starters see http://www.sarnoff.com:8000/, go to metacomputing. 
> 
> clusters for freebsd have existed here since 1994.

  But that cluster design is focused on performance.  The focus of this
dicussion is reliability.  For example, being able to migrate functions
from a failed node to a functioning node with no user perceived losss of
service.

> ron
> 
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> ftp://ftp.sarnoff.com/pub/mnfs/www/docs/cluster.html 

Tom


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