[K12OSN] re: K12LTSP and clustering (Edmond Wong)

[Matt Oquist]

> From: Edmond Wong <ewong at chinooksedge.ab.ca>
> Subject: [K12OSN] K12LTSP and clustering

> Hi, at work we have a few older machines in the range of P2's and P3's  
> and no money for a server. So I was considering building a cluster to 
> run K12LTSP. My question is does K12LTSP benefit from being run on a 
> cluster? I've found articles on how to setup K12LTSP with OpenMosix or 
> Beowulf, but no one confirming the results of doing it. It will 
> definitely be better than running it on a single computer, but does 
> K12LTSP scale well enough on a cluster that it can replace a good server?

At the Ubuntu Below Zero conference we heard a presentation by Ivan
Krstic, who is using OpenSSI clustering to serve LTSP in a Croatian
hospital.  I don't know what came of it, but it looked at the time
like Edubuntu may be heading toward making clustering available OOTB,
and OpenSSI was at least under consideration.

If I were to look into clustering LTSP, OpenSSI is probably where I'd
start.

--matt

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