Marek (Mark@carrera.com)
Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:51:53 -0800
Digital Domain was the company that created it.
Machines was bought from us, and they were running 4.2
sort of.. (havily added at the time)
Marek Dohojda
Carrera Computers
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Frank C. Brants wrote:
>At 01:57 PM 1/28/99 , you wrote:
>
>There was an aritlce in a recent Linux Journal about a rather large (100 +
>machines) Alpha Linux Cluster created by a movie house in California to do
>the image processing for the "Titanic" movie, but I can't lay my fingers on
>it... anybody?
>
>I think I followed links from RedHat's web site, but it appears to be hung
>at the moment.
>
>But, I specifically remember it was an Alpha Linux Cluster, running 4.2
>(which may have been the current release when the cluster was built.)
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Franko
>
>>On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Aaron wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking at clustering about 3 or 4 web servers together and using NAT
>>> to pass between them. I would like to know if anyone has expierence with
>>> linux clusters. I've look at the documentation on http://www.linas.org
>>> I've also gone to and read the home pages and the mailing lists. (Sparse
>>> information and mostly complaints on what doesn't work)
>>>
>>> What I would like is to know if anyone has had first hand expiernce with
>>> it. I'm in the middle of putting together some budgets, and would LIKE to
>>> go with alpha hardware, but without being required to goto DU for a
>>> clustering solution.
>>
>>We have done this but not with alphas, although I have at various times
>>had all the pieces working independantly. The solution I would recomned is
>>to use squid to do the fornt end proxying and redirection. It has the
>>advantage that the load to serve up static pages is much lower than apache
>>and a reasonalby fast server should be quite capable of proxying several
>>million hits a day.
>>
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