cluster system

Load Balancer Open Source Software

by Vivek Gite on March 11, 2008 · 12 comments

I’ve worked with a various load balancing systems (LBS). They are complex pieces of hardware and software. In this post I will highlight some of the open source load balancing software. But what is load balancing? It is nothing but a technique used to share (spared) load / services between two or more servers. For [...]

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Google internal and Linux

by nixcraft on August 7, 2006 · 0 comments

As many of you may already know, Google uses a version of Red Hat to power their servers, running on old kernels. Check out Toby DiPasquale’s Google internal talk (slides). To be frank I am only aware of 2 or 4 way standard cluster system. But this is a massive parallel system build by Google [...]

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