Linux Clustering: Building and Maintaining Linux Clusters

Description: The book is divided into eleven chapters, unevenly distributed among three sections: an overview of clustering for Linux, building clusters, and maintaining clusters. Four appendices provide brief information about online clustering resources, options for RedHat's "Kickstart," options for DHCP, and information on "Condor ClassAd Machine Attributes." Bookman provides a central piece of wisdom that no system administrator should ignore: redundancy. In the case of high availability clusters, parts redundancy is the name of the game, but one should not forget the human component; no administrator should be caught with only a cell phone-keep a pager just in case. However, in a post-modern turn that might seem brilliant if it were applied in a work of fiction rather than a technical book, the author seems to apply the concept of redundancy to the text itself. That the book began not as a book but rather as a collection of talks or presentations, or some other smaller format, is evidenced by .. ISBN: 1578702747 Release Date: 25 June, 2002 List Price: $48.75 Author: Charles Bookman Publisher: Que Last Updated: 06/26/2003

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