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About Kimberlite
Thanks for checking out Kimberlite. We're psyched to be able to GPL a
complete high availability cluster infrastructure to the open source
community. Once you kick the tires and look under the hood, you will be
pleasantly surprised. This is a complete packaging of all the software
components you need to deploy true high availability Linux based cluster
servers.
Yes, there are other product offerings and components that you could
use to build up high availability application servers today. But if you
look closely you will see that on the Linux front today, there are no
other offerings which can provide data integrity guarantees in the face
of failures. This is what makes Kimberlite so unique. When considering
any cluster foundation, ask how it responds to:
- host system failure
- clean shutdown for planned maintenance
- network partitions
- system hangs
Most existing Linux cluster offerings can cover the first 2, but only
Kimberlite can cover all 4. Before chosing any clustering software for
your production environment, be sure to read the following article which
appeared in the December 2000 edition of Linux Journal. The "Linux
Cluster Checklist" article describes a set of
criteria that any credible cluster must address in order to safely
provide highly available filesystem and database services.
Kimberlite is targeted at commercial deployments and was initially
developed by a team of developers who have been working on commercial
cluster offerings for over 8 years.
Since Kimberlite is principally composed of user level daemons, it is
distribution agnostic and runs on a great diversity of commodity
hardware.
But this is just the beginning. Since Kimberlite is a high
availability infrastructure, there are lots of ways you can contribute. Examples
include the addition of new service types as well as sharing your
experiences on a range of hardware and distributions you use it with.
Together we can also grow and strengthen the capabilities of the core
components.
Use of this website and the materials within are subject to
the Terms and Conditions - any other use is strictly
prohibited
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