Book description
Linux Clustering: Building and Maintaining Linux Clusters provides Linux users with information about building their own Linux cluster from the ground up. It gives best practices, helpful hints, and guidelines about building one server or hundreds of servers at a level that administrators at any experience level can understand.
From installation of the air conditioning and power in the data center, to alternative file systems to the final production run, this book provides you with everything that you need to know. Linux Clustering: Building and Maintaining Linux Clusters walks you through the initial design and selection of the best possible types of clusters, as well as covering monitoring tools and providing for disaster recovery. Not only does this book provide information on parallel and Beowulf type clusters, Charles Bookman goes into depth on high availability clusters, load balancing, and provides advice for writing your own distributing applications as well. Incorporating best practices and cutting-edge approaches, Bookman provides step-by-step and tried-and-true methods of bringing up a Linux cluster to production level.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewers
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think
- Introduction
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I. An Overview of Clustering for Linux, Preparing Your Network, and Linux Servers
- 1. Clustering Fundamentals
- 2. Preparing Your Linux Cluster
- 3. Installing and Streamlining the Cluster
- 4. Alternative File Systems
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II. Building Clusters
- 5. High Availability and Fault-Tolerant Clusters
- 6. Load Balancing
- 7. Distributed Computing
- 8. Parallel Computing
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III. The Care and Feeding of a Cluster
- 9. Programming a Parallel Cluster
- 10. Cluster Management
- 11. Recovering When Disaster Str ikes
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IV. Appendixes
- A. Cluster Resources
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B. Kickstart Options
- autostep (Optional)
- Authentication
- bootloader
- clearpart: Removing Partitions Based on Partition Type
- device
- deviceprobe
- driverdisk
- firewall
- install
- Installation Methods
- cdrom
- harddrive
- url
- interactive
- keyboard
- lang
- langsupport
- lilo
- lilocheck (Optional)
- mouse
- network
- part
- raid
- reboot (Optional)
- rootpw (Required)
- skipx (Optional)
- text (Optional)
- timezone (Required)
- upgrade (Optional)
- xconfig
- zerombr: Partition Table Initialization
- %packages: Package Selection
- %pre: Pre-Installation Configuration Section
- %post: Post-Installation Configuration Section
- C. DHCP Options
- D. Condor ClassAd Machine Attributes
Product information
- Title: Linux Clustering: Building and Maintaining Linux Clusters
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2002
- Publisher(s): Sams
- ISBN: None
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