Hello all, Its a good news bad news thing. First the bad news.
Once again, human error triumphs. I had intended on giving a demo of
linux clustering to the members of an windows XP pro class that I am
attending at PVCC.
Based on info I had, the computers in the classroom should have worked
with PXE booting. In the event that they wouldn't I decided to bring
another computer that I know works. Unfortunatley, the classroom
computers wouldn't boot and I brought the wrong power cord for my backup
computer, so I couldn't get a cluster going.
Now for the good news. There was MUCH interest generated. The interested
parties were the instructor of the class, the night time sys admin of
the PVCC computer lab, and 3 class members, one of whom is a sys admin
with the Tempe school district. None of them had ever seem linux in
action. I did have my laptop, running redhat 9.0 to show them and also I
did boot up the clusterKnoppix disk so that the could see a linux desktop.
For the first attempt at this demo, I had to lobby to be allowed to do
it. After last night, I was invited by the instructor to try again next
week.
2 of my fellow students are going to bring their laptops with them. I
will prepare boot disks from romomatic.net so that we can add them to
the cluster. I am also going to create boot disks for the classroom PCs
with romomatic. Lastly I am going to bring my spare computer again with
the proper cords. We WILL have a cluster going next week.
The person most interested was the Tempe sysadmin, he really sees some
benifits in clustering, manily in how the CPU cycles and memory of
older, less powerfull machines can be aggregated to give each user much
more power than they otherwise would have.
In my first post I did make some negative remarks regarding windows.
This, I realize was inappropriate. Regardless of whether a person
percives the quality of MS operating systems as good or bad, I now
realize that this is not the forum for such comments. I am going to
restict my further comments on this forum to linux and keep my views on
MS, whether positive or negative, to myself.
As always, any comments, criticisms or recommendations are welcome.
Charlie
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