Comments on: Cluster Standards, Who Needs Them http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6656/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:16:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: tomviolin http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6656/#comment-1387 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:36:07 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6656/#comment-1387 The technology most certainly DOES exist to implement "a standard the allows you to encapsulate and run your application cluster" and create a "standard way of launching application clusters on the hardware." It's called virtualization. With the freely available VMWare Server and VMWare Player, you could create a standard cluster node appliance and deploy it on a wide variety of hosts, even desktops and servers that have other primary uses. Think of it as SETI@Home on steroids. The technology most certainly DOES exist to implement “a standard the allows you to encapsulate and run your application cluster” and create a “standard way of launching application clusters on the hardware.”

It’s called virtualization. With the freely available VMWare Server and VMWare Player, you could create a standard cluster node appliance and deploy it on a wide variety of hosts, even desktops and servers that have other primary uses. Think of it as SETI@Home on steroids.

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