316 Linux for IBM ^ zSeries and S/390: Distributions
18.1 What is a Linux cluster
There are several categories of clustering applications or technologies, as
discussed in the following sections.
Parallel performance clusters
With parallel performance clusters, a large number of individual machines are
put together to act as a single powerful machine. This kind of clustering
technique is commonly seen in scientific research where a very complex problem
is divided into many parts in order to speed up the compute process. This type of
parallelism is seen most often in applications such as weather forecasting or
matrix calculations. It requires communication between the servers and complex
algorithms.
One open source solution for this type of clust ...