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Clustering with Windows XP

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by Member 26819608

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My Networking class is wanting to cluster three computers together using XP Pro. We are having trouble finding any info on this. Any help would be deeply appreciated. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks from 15 community college students in the midwest!

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by shiny_topadm

Hi, my observation on this is that MS defines clustering as a server service and "XP" is a desktop OS. Any official reference that I have seen requires a server OS (NT server, 2000 server, server 2003) to do this, even if it's done thru proprietary hardware. MS draws sharper boundaries between desktop and server operations that does, say, linux. Maybe you could build a linux cluster and connect to it from your XP desktop systems... good luck

by Member 26819608

That's what I was afraid of. I have them searching sights now for linux info. Thank you very much for your help!

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