Tutorial on Clustering

Linux Clustering What is Linux : . Linux is an open-source Unix like operating system. Linux has a reputation of a very secure and efficient system. It is used most commonly to run network servers and has also recently started to make inroads into Microsoft dominant desktop business. It is available for wide variety of computing devices from embedded systems to huge multiprocessors, also it is available for different processors like x86, powerpc, ARM, Alpha, Sparc, MIPS, etc.It should be remembered that Linux is essentially the OS Kernel developed by Linus Torvald and is different from the commonly available distributions like RedHat, Caldera,etc(These are Linux Kernel plus GPLed softwares). Common Commands in Linux: 1.1 Changing directory cd without arguments puts the user in the users home directory. With a directory name as argument, the command moves the user to that directory $>cd directorypath 1.2 Copy files cp makes copies of files in two ways. $>cp file1 file2 makes a new copy of file1 and names it file2. $>cp [list of files] directory puts copies of all the files listed into the directory named. Contrast this to the mv command which moves or renames a file. 1.3 Making a link ln creates a link between files. Example: The following links the existing file example.c to ex.c. $>ln example.c ex.c The following creates symbolic links. $>ln -s /usr/include incl See the online man pages for many ...