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Marc Wrubleski - Scaling WW using multiple hosts and NFS?

Marc Wrubleski - Scaling WW using multiple hosts and NFS?

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inactiveTopicScaling WW using multiple hosts and NFS? topic started 10/15/2002; 11:23:04 AM
last post 10/15/2002; 12:51:15 PM
userMarc Wrubleski - Scaling WW using multiple hosts and NFS?  blueArrow
10/15/2002; 11:23:04 AM (reads: 935, responses: 1)
We are investigating options for scaling webwork across some number of nodes, and have found that splitting groups of users across unique systems would work, but I am wondering if it would be possible to have some number of webwork nodes all connected to a common NFS data store.

Before I do too much work to determine the viability of this plan I thought I should ask. Has anyone else tried this? Will it be possible?

Thanks.

Marc Wrubleski

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userArnold K. Pizer - Re: Scaling WW using multiple hosts and NFS?  blueArrow
10/15/2002; 12:51:15 PM (reads: 1247, responses: 0)
Hi Marc,

Check with "Domingos R. Begalli" <drb@uci.edu> at UC Irvine. Here is part of an email from Domingos from last spring.

 

>>Professor Pizer,
>>
>>This message is just to give you an update of the status of WeBWorK
>>at UCI.  I also left you a voice message.
>>
>>As you probably know, we have been using WeBWorK at UCI for
>>several quarters now.  Last quarter we served 2000 students,
>>going to 2500 this quarter, all calculus classes.  We are now
>>planning to expand it to physics.
>>
>>Briefly, we are using a distributed cluster with six AMD-based
>>nodes (Thunderbird 1.3GHz, 768MB RAM/node) running Linux Slackware.
>>They are [DNS] served on a round-robin scheme for load balancing
>>purposes.

Arnie

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