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On Tuesday 31 March 2009 17:51, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 03:28:14PM +0100, Tom Potts wrote: > > It just occurred to me that if the cloud hosting 'cluster' is resilient > > and asymmetrical then this could be just what I've been looking for... > > Does anyone know about the server (cloud) side software? > > What do you want to know? Amazon EC2 is probably the best known, and > it is built on top of Xen and a lot more besides. I've always though Xen was the wrong way up for this - I don't want to run lots of operating systems on one machine I want to run one operating system on many machines. I want to be able to run one resilient setup: Virtual File System Database Web Server on lots of different machines - most clusters seem to be lots of the same machines - so I can add an old 386 or a 64core AMD box seamlessly What I want seems to be the antithesis of cloud computing, but I can imagine it sharing many of the same ideas - just used many to one where Cloud computing goes one to many... Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html