Thanks! The low-effort VM clone (essentially fork() for Xen VMs, and only takes 1-2 seconds even for dozens of clones) makes deploying a bunch of almost-identical machines extremely easy.
We've also toyed around with other cluster-scale platforms (see my earlier post) and have a MySQL Cluster HOWTO in the works, but the clustered SQL databases are decidedly more heavyweight - MySQL Cluster doesn't even allow removal of cluster nodes once they're added (without dropping all the clustered tables). Not sure if Oracle RAC has that capability - if so, we might be able to put together a fun demo.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 22.4 ms ] threadmemcached - http://blog.gridcentriclabs.com/2010/07/how-to-build-10-core...
Hadoop - http://blog.gridcentriclabs.com/2010/07/howto-build-hadoop-c...
An early take on Hudson / Continuous Integration - http://blog.gridcentriclabs.com/2010/07/elastic-build-system...
As always, we'd love any feedback the HN community might have!
This looks downright pleasant to configure.
We've also toyed around with other cluster-scale platforms (see my earlier post) and have a MySQL Cluster HOWTO in the works, but the clustered SQL databases are decidedly more heavyweight - MySQL Cluster doesn't even allow removal of cluster nodes once they're added (without dropping all the clustered tables). Not sure if Oracle RAC has that capability - if so, we might be able to put together a fun demo.