Linux Clustering - Building And Maintaining Linux Clusters - Charles Bookman

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Résumé :
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 distributed 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.

Biographie:
Charles Bookman has been using computers since they first started hitting the home market, and he has used Linux since the early days of the 2.0 kernel. Having used UNIX for more than 10 years, he's currently focusing on system administration using Linux, Solaris, and high-performance clusters at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

Sommaire:

• An overview of clustering for Linux, preparing your network, and Linux servers
• Building clusters
• The care and feeding of a cluster