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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 cmail@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> What is the difference between the Beowolf Project and the Virtual Server
> project?
both use several (or a lot of) nodes.
A beowulf is a collection of nodes working on a single computation.
The computation is broken into small pieces and passed to a node,
which replies with the result. Eventually the whole computation is done.
THe beowulf usually has a single user and the computations can run for
weeks.
An LVS is a group of machines offering a service to a client. A dispatcher
connects the client to a particular server for the request. When the
request is completed, the dispatcher removes the connection between
the client and server. The next request from the same client may
go to a different server but the client cannot tell which server
it has connected to. The connection between client and server
may only be seconds long
> Is Beowolf better or worse?
different
Joe
> http://beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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> Thanks.
> cmail@xxxxxxxxxx
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Joseph Mack mack@xxxxxxxxxxx
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