[Beowulf] [Bioclusters] servers for bio web services setup (fwd from michab@dcs.gla.ac.uk)

[Alan Louis Scheinine]

One machine might be enough.  With regard to clustering,
what you need is high availability, which is different
from Beowulf.

One source of high availability information is
http://www.linux-ha.org/

Micha Bayer <michab at dcs.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> The computational back end is likely to be our UK National Grid or
> similar, but either way he is only providing the server that hosts the
> middleware and metascheduler. He is wondering what hardware setup setup
> is best for this. We are probably looking at running the web/grid
> services out of Tomcat.
> 

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Alan Scheinine
  Centro di Ricerca, Sviluppo e Studi Superiori in Sardegna
  Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia