Thunderbolt Cluster

[joshfrog]

Hi Guys

 

I am very bored at the moment coming up with projects i can work on while my work shuts down over christmas.

I have 2 Intel NUCs both have thunderbolt, My server, Laptop and Desktop also all have thunderbolt 3.

I was thinking about turning the NUCs into a cluster but not sure what i could use the cluster for once done.

so if you have an ideas of what i could use them for.

Or if you have other project ideas im all ears.

 

Thanks for any ideas and or help.

[mikat]

you don't really need thunderbolt to create a cluster, most are made over the network, thunderbolt is really to connect accessories to your devices and not p2p

[joshfrog]

yeah i know but i only have a gigabit network so if i used thunderbolt it would be able to be a lot faster 

[leadeater]

Moved to Servers and NAS

[AbsoluteFool]

On 12/15/2018 at 10:50 AM, joshfrog said:

Hi Guys

 

I am very bored at the moment coming up with projects i can work on while my work shuts down over christmas.

I have 2 Intel NUCs both have thunderbolt, My server, Laptop and Desktop also all have thunderbolt 3.

I was thinking about turning the NUCs into a cluster but not sure what i could use the cluster for once done.

so if you have an ideas of what i could use them for.

Or if you have other project ideas im all ears.

 

Thanks for any ideas and or help.

The first thing about clusters is that it is prefered that all systems are more or less identical. I think if you cluster the systems you have the load will only be shared equally to the slowest system in your cluster. However i could be wrong here.

[Electronics Wizardy]

On 12/15/2018 at 2:04 AM, joshfrog said:

yeah i know but i only have a gigabit network so if i used thunderbolt it would be able to be a lot faster 

you can do ip over thunderbolt, but thunderbolt isn't designed for this exact use. You can do clusters over 1gbe just fine, really depends on the use of the cluster.

[NelizMastr]

7 hours ago, AbsoluteFool said:

The first thing about clusters is that it is prefered that all systems are more or less identical. I think if you cluster the systems you have the load will only be shared equally to the slowest system in your cluster. However i could be wrong here.

Planning wise, you're bang on. In clusters to be HA, you really need to be able to carry all the load on half the nodes. 

 

5 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

you can do ip over thunderbolt, but thunderbolt isn't designed for this exact use. You can do clusters over 1gbe just fine, really depends on the use of the cluster.

This. 

 

I somehow doubt this is a NVMe storage cluster with heavy reliance on IOPS