From: DeAnn Iwan Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm Subject: Re: PVM and failover Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:33:12 -0500 Organization: Mitre Message-Id: <36545658.35D6C08E@mitre.org> References: <3653F639.E23CEE18@xs4all.nl> Reply-To: diwanATmitreDOTorg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit pvm can keep going as long as the original master deamon is alive and well...I am new to pvm and do not know if deamons automatically restart processes that don't report back. the sunsite has articles on high reliability computing including overviews of how to set up various types of failovers (by doing things like having one machine shadow another and then change it's IP adress to the other's if the main server fails to report). Different types of failover are appropriate for different situations. Jeroen Vriesman wrote: > > Does anyone know what happens to PVM processes when A machine in a linux > cluster fails, does anyone know any good documentation on linux > clustering/failover, I can only find performance related documents. > > Cheers, > Jeroen.