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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is my situation. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am really new to clusters and I am assingned the
task to learn about it. As maintaining one such cluster will
become my bread and butter.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Let me start. I want to know how is a cluster
viewed from the Desktop of a User. I have to maintain a LINUX Cluster and Is it
same as the user logs in to a Standalone Linux Box. Will he see all the nodes as
a whole or can he see all the nodes individually.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is he going to see only the master node? which
perhaps is the only Node connected to the site network and the rest of the Nodes
are connected to the master node, thru some internal network not accessable to
the site network.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When we login to the Cluster, are we connected to
the whole setup or just the master node?.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What happens to the abundant Hard disk space we
have in all the other nodes, Can the user use it?. If yes how, coz he is logging
into the master node only and how can he access the other nodes. If the hard
disk space is only used for scratch, then why do we need a 72Gig Hard drive for
that matter?. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>These are some of the issues annoying me. Pls
forgive me if I am a little boring and I will be glad if someone can really
guide me.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Richard</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>