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Rocks clusters make sense for educational environments

08-18-2008 11:00 AM
Cluster computing has played a pivotal role in the way research is conducted in educational environments. Because the amount of available money and hardware varies between university researchers, often it's necessary to find a clustering solution that can work well on a small scale, but also can be expanded into a large computing cluster. To maximize grants, researchers typically ask for an open source solution to meet their needs. Despite the lack of certain desirable features, Rocks clusters are among the best open source solution for building a computing cluster.



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chosts(1M)						  System Administration Commands						chosts(1M)

NAME
chosts - expand cluster names into host names SYNOPSIS
$CLUSTER_HOME/bin/chosts name [name...] DESCRIPTION
The chosts utility expands the arguments into a list of host names. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: name The parameter name can be a hostname or a cluster name. If name is a hostname, it is expanded to be a hostname. If name is a cluster name, that is, an entry exists in the /etc/clusters database (or a NIS or NIS+ map), it is expanded into the list of hosts that make up that cluster, as specified in the database. The list is typically used by programs that wish to operate on a list of hosts. If an entry for clusters has been made in the /etc/nisswitch.conf file, then the order of lookups is controlled by that entry. If there is no such file or no such entry, then the nameservice look up order is implicitly nis files. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWccon | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ccp(1M), cconsole(1M), cports(1M), crlogin(1M), cssh(1M), ctelnet(1M), clusters(4), attributes(5) Sun Cluster 3.2 8 Sep 2007 chosts(1M)