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The Linux Enterprise Cluster explains how to take a number of inexpensive computers with limited resources, place them on a normal computer network, and install free software so that the computers act together like one powerful server. This makes it possible to build a very inexpensive and reliable business system for a small business or a large corporation. The book includes information on how to build a high-availability server pair using the Heartbeat package, how to use the Linux Virtual Server load balancing software, how to configure a reliable printing system in a Linux cluster environment, and how to build a job scheduling system in Linux with no single point of failure. The book also includes information on high availability techniques that can be used with or without a cluster, making it helpful for System Administrators even if they are not building a cluster. Anyone interested in deploying Linux in an environment where low cost computer reliability is important will find this book useful. The CD-ROM includes all of the software needed to build a Linux Enterprise Cluster, including the Linux kernel, rsync, the SystemImager package, the Heartbeat package, the Linux Virtual Server package, the Mon monitoring package, and the Ganglia package. All figures in the book are also included on the CD-ROM.
Customer Reviews:
Lots of information, but poorly structured.......2007-04-12
Theres plenty of information in here, but the biggest problem I had with working my way through the book is it's structure. The book presents the topics in a bottom-up way, kicking off with low-level xinetd & init configuration, and doesn't actually get down to an overview of clustering until page 196! Thats fine if you already know what you're aiming for, but for the novice looking for an overview of clustering in the Linux environment, it's almost better to read the book backwards - start with Chapter 20 (an overview of the whole environment), read through Chapters 11-13 (cluster architecture and components), and finally hit Chapters 6-8 (heartbeat) and the remaining chapters (which go into detail on the various different components).
The other cluster flavor.......2006-09-11
Clusters, like many things, come in various flavors. These can be roughly stated as `high throughput', `high performance (HPC)', and `high availability'. The "Linux Enterprise Cluster" is a good read for those looking for the `high-availability' cluster flavor, for perhaps a mission-critical computing resource. There is thus more emphasis on fail-over and service request handling than, for example, MPI, exacting operation calculations, and HSI maximizing techniques typical of HPC endeavors. This is not to say this book is not applicable to the other cluster types. Could you do with a chapter on SystemImager? How about Ganglia? Rsync & SSH? Building a kernel? All this step-by-step? Awesome! I was building an HPC cluster at the time, and found this a good book for drilling into deeper cluster software infrastructure details while at the park or waiting for a class to start. It was however sparse on hardware details and proper supporting infrastructure, but no book under 10 pounds is going to cover everything so be prepared to read a lot. I did not evaluate the included CD-ROM, which is loaded with goodies, because I simply downloaded the packages from the Internet as needed.
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Great Explanations and Recipies.......2006-08-08
If you want to build any HA cluster, this book is for you. The author has the ability to write from entry level to advanced Linux admin skillsets. His recipies for HA and LVS clusters are complete and realistic. We all know there are few Linux books we read from cover to cover. This is one of them.
The perfect book for small clusters.......2006-06-14
Karls book seems for me the perfect book for small clusters. He describes every single install and configuration aspect I could possible think of.
The book is extremly readable and described each single step and its considerations easy understandable. It does read at times a bit theoretical like it was made by a teacher, ruther than a technichian, but perhaps that is why it is so comprehensible.
For the details found inside it is very compact which makes it easy to carry it with you when you go onsite.
Whats not described in the book:
Environmental considerations like Heat, Power consumption, Budget calculations on several technologies etc.
Those are described in Roert W. Lubkes - Building clustered Linux systems.
Those 2 books compliment each other very nicely.
very well conceived and written book!.......2005-09-11
When you find something you really like you want to have/know more of it, not really being important if it is food, an idea or a piece of art. And part of liking something is getting greedy+opinionated+political about it.
One little thing that bothered me about this book was the constant changed of fonts from like 12 points to 8 and then 6 with a gray background. Usability anyone? But this is not something the author should be blamed for.
I am more of a software person, but IMHO here are my comments about the book. More aimed at the next version of Karl's book or in case some wants to pick up these ideas where he left them off.
Karls book was slashdotted also (go slashdot and search (underneath to he left) on 1593270364),
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but I found more flame baits and slashdot'ing that attempts to talk about this excellent book intelligently:
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._ considering the 2.4 version of the kernel? fine! But why even talking about ipchains if the whole LVS idea is based on Netfilters and who uses ipchains nowadays anyway?
._ more on power management of the primary and back severs, does heartbeat do some kind of interfacing to APMD on both?
._ have these ideas been ported for *BSD? I mean, I really find silly these "Give me Linux or give me dead" battle cries from us, OSS techies, when we should actually love the fact that we have more options as robust (if not as popular) as Linux.
._ more on the reasons why the different pieces of hardware in a cluster would fail and how to work around these issues (just the basics of it with points to more info (we sw people some times code without consideration to the fact that RAM is very expensive nowadays and using in-memory Data Structures would make HDDs give us their blessings)).
._ there are NICs with two (and 3?) connectors out there, why not using them in an LVS env.? And if there are reasons, why not mentioning them? NICs are cheap and available, PCI slots on a mobo aren't.
._ page 140; ... "the system time between the two servers should be within minutes of each other" ... why? It is vital on a cluster having all boxes accuraelky synchronized!!! This should have stressed/elaborated on.
._ more on the measurability of the whole concept of availability, the requirements/issues relating to a 99.99% uptime are very different to the ones of a 99.999% uptime, and the issues relating to it (both hw and sw).
Also, on the fact that absolute ha/uptime (100%) is just an ideal state. We should not go totally crazy about. Eventually we will have to make decisions that might affect 1 in 10,000 users and we will have to live with it (instead of taxing all 10,001 users with a less performant app). Because even if we put the effort to achieve 100% uptime, say, a cosmic ray could run through our box and change the parity of a byte running ...
._ I could not quite get why the backup server does not functionally take the role of the primary one entirely
._ page 158; more on the exceptions of filesystems regarding heartbeat configurations
._ more on the implications that using different kinds of applications have.
I wouldn't complicate firewall rules with the ftp protocol when the http can do the job as well even with the option of more/better coding through a web interface and you can safely (checking MD5SUMs, etc) stream data from point A to B. But I would like to see a more detailed handling of the HTTPS protocol. Separating an SSL cluster from the HTTP one (not doing port affinity between ports 80 and 443) I think is better, because you don't have to spend money on SSL accelerator cards for all boxes in the cluster, the access paths to back end data stores could be better optimized/controlled, for security reasons it is better to not have the same applications listening on insecure and secure ports, more accurate logs, ...
._ at least -some- figures on the performance differences between LVS-DR and LVS-NAT configurations. Didn't he recommend doing LVS-NAT as a step towards the more performant LVS-DR installation?
._ I think using software for ha performance and maintenance-wise is good to, especially since RAM is so dirt cheap and processors so powerful (hyper threading, pipelining, ...) I use several Tomcat instances 'directed' by an Apache one and it works well, letting you, within the same box, reconfigure apps without taking the app offline.
._ page 366; "Another technique to avoid a single point of failure for SQL data ..." I would just changed the word "Another" for "THE". Karl, buddy, have you started to see "clusters" everywhere? ;-) Let's do DBMS what they have been designed for? Taxing clustered systems with extra, unnecessary, care for DBMS does not make any sense, I think. Or?
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An here comes what I think it is the lie behind the whole idea of doing packet filtering just based on the kernel's packet headers handling.
As it is rightly pointed out in the book whole organizations face the Internet through a single IP address (NAT) (I have even heard about whole countries like Saudi Arabia, ...), how would you go with these cases.
Users' session handling (inside of the HTTP application headers, not just simply the packets) in order to actually tell apart new user connections is VITAL to actually and truly do clustering.
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Albretch
Book Description
Extracting content from text continues to be an important research problem for information processing and management. Approaches to capture the semantics of text-based document collections may be based on Bayesian models, probability theory, vector space models, statistical models, or even graph theory.
As the volume of digitized textual media continues to grow, so does the need for designing robust, scalable indexing and search strategies (software) to meet a variety of user needs. Knowledge extraction or creation from text requires systematic yet reliable processing that can be codified and adapted for changing needs and environments.
This book will draw upon experts in both academia and industry to recommend practical approaches to the purification, indexing, and mining of textual information. It will address document identification, clustering and categorizing documents, cleaning text, and visualizing semantic models of text.
Customer Reviews:
subjective extraction of clusters.......2006-10-19
The book is relatively brief, given the technical nature of its chapters, each written by different authors. Many clustering methods are described. Most can be seen to have some degree of subjectivity, in defining what ends up in a given cluster. Or whether a cluster even exists or not.
The analysis of Web documents forms a major portion of the book. This data set is vast, continually changing and expanding. Plus, it is noisy. Unlike many clean data sets that might be extracted from a corpus of books, for example. Attention should be paid to methods of automatically extracting information from the Web.
The book does not go much into the higher level problems of defining ontologies. Which are very hard tasks. The closest it seems to get is along the lines of finding similar words in documents. Which is still very useful.
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Wildlife researchers and ecologists make widespread use of multivariate statistics in their studies. With its focus on the practical application of the techniques of multivariate statistics, this book shapes the powerful tools of statistics for the specific needs of ecologists and makes statistics more applicable to their course of study. Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research gives the reader a solid conceptual understanding of the role of multivariate statistics in ecological applications and the relationships among various techniques, while avoiding detailed mathematics and underlying theory. More important, the reader will gain insight into the type of research questions best handled by each technique and the important considerations in applying each one. Whether used as a textbook for specialized courses or as a supplement to general statistics texts, the book emphasizes those techniques that students of ecology and natural resources most need to understand and employ in their research. Detailed examples use real wildlife data sets analyzed using the SAS statistical software program. The book is specifically targeted for upper-division and graduate students in wildlife biology, forestry, and ecology, and for professional wildlife scientists and natural resource managers, but it will be valuable to researchers in any of the biological sciences. Kevin McGarigal is Assistant Professor and Sam Cushman is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management at the University of Massachusetts. Susan Stafford is Head of the Forest Science Department at Colorado State University.
Customer Reviews:
A good introduction to multivariate statistics.......2007-01-26
This book is fairly easy to understand, even with little knowledge of multivariate statistics. The author uses specific examples relevant to ecological fields and does not focus on theory (which is a rarity in statistical manuals). It is, however, starting to get a bit outdated with some of the techniques gaining favor in the literature recently.
grad students.......2002-04-01
I am an ecology grad student and I have returned to this text again and again.
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Companies and other organizations depend more than ever on the availability of their Information Technology, and most mission critical business processes are IT-based processes. Business continuity is the ability to do business under any circumstances and is an essential requirement modern companies are facing. High availability and disaster recovery are contributions of the IT to fulfill this requirement. And companies will be confronted with such demands to an even greater extent in the future, since their credit ratings will be lower without such precautions.
Both, high availability and disaster recovery, are realized by redundant systems. Redundancy can and should be implemented on different abstraction levels: from the hardware, the operating system and middleware components up to the backup computing center in case of a disaster. This book presents requirements, concepts, and realizations of redundant systems on all abstraction levels, and all given examples refer to UNIX and Linux systems.
Customer Reviews:
Conceptually very good, Methodology too.......2007-05-30
This is my first book about this matter. Although I have some experience implementing solution with HA/DR requirements, this book was very clarifier. Topics are conceptually clear and also this proposes a good methodology to face HA/DR requirements.
You will get some technical details about components that allow implement HA/DR, however it is not in deep. Don't think you will get a comercial product review. This is not the target.
It is a very good book.
Book Description
The goal of this book is to present and compare various options one for systems architecture from two separate points of view. One, that of the information technology decision-maker who must choose a solution matching company business requirements, and secondly that of the systems architect who finds himself between the rock of changes in hardware and software technologies and the hard place of changing business needs.
Different aspects of server architecture are presented, from databases designed for parallel architectures to high-availability systems, and touching en route on often- neglected performance aspects.
1. The book provides IT managers, decision makers and project leaders who want to acquire knowledge sufficient to understand the choices made in and capabilities of systems offered by various vendors:
2. Provides system design information to balance the characteristic applications against the capabilities and nature of various architectural choices
3. In addition, it offers an integrated view of the concepts in server architecture, accompanied by discussion of effects on the evolution of the data processing industry.
Customer Reviews:
still many choices.......2005-04-24
Chevance gives good coverage to both the hardware and software issues. In the field of multiple/concurrent processing, there is still a variety of hardware offerings. You get a discussion of trends. Most importantly of whether the Intel or AMD chipsets might predominate over more specialised chipsets for future architectures. The economics of mass produced cpus suggests that you may want to hedge your bets as to what you commit to.
Further up the food chain, the book goes into various software approaches, especially with an eye towards being deployed on Web servers. Unlike some specialised multiprocessors, which might be mainly used in science, the Web servers have broad appeal. Here, Enterprise Java Beans, object pooling and other subjects are gone into. However, while this section of the book may have broader appeal, it is more comprehensively covered in other texts.
Book Description
Cluster analysis comprises a range of methods of classifying multivariate data into subgroups, and these techniques are widely applicable. The 4th edition of Cluster Analysis updates the successful 3rd edition and incorporates new material to cover developing areas, such as Bayesian statistics and neural networks. In addition, recent research on the evaluation of results and the assessment of the number of clusters has also been included. Real-life examples are used throughout to demonstrate the application of the theory, and graphical techniques are demonstrated with appropriate figures. Finally, this edition includes information on the software packages currently available. The author assumes some prior knowledge of statistics, but writes in a non-mathematical, accessible style. This concise book is ideal for postgraduate students of statistics, as well as researchers in medicine, sociology, and market research.
Customer Reviews:
Good introduction.......2003-04-16
Here is an excellent introduction to cluster analysis. The concepts are explained in clear language, with many illustrative examples. It is possibly the best of the introductory level books. I give it 4 stars because of a few misprints, and a few places where some essential information or detail has been omitted that can lead to misunderstanding.
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Many methods for analyzing clustered data exist, all with advantages and limitations in particular applications. Compiled from the contributions of leading specialists in the field, Topics in Modelling of Clustered Data describes the tools and techniques for modelling the clustered data often encountered in medical, biological, environmental, and social science studies. It focuses on providing a comprehensive treatment of marginal, conditional, and random effects models using, among others, likelihood, pseudo-likelihood, and generalized estimating equations methods. The authors motivate and illustrate all aspects of these models in a variety of real applications. They discuss several variations and extensions, including individual-level covariates and combined continuous and discrete outcomes. Flexible modelling with fractional and local polynomials, omnibus lack-of-fit tests, robustification against misspecification, exact, and bootstrap inferential procedures all receive extensive treatment. The applications discussed center primarily, but not exclusively, on developmental toxicity, which leads naturally to discussion of other methodologies, including risk assessment and dose-response modelling. Clearly written, Topics in Modelling of Clustered Data offers a practical, easily accessible survey of important modelling issues. Overview models give structure to a multitude of approaches, figures help readers visualize model characteristics, and a generous use of examples illustrates all aspects of the modelling process.
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This book deals with recent developments in classification and data analysis and presents new topics which are of central interest to modern statistics. In particular, these include: classification models and clustering methods, multivariate data analysis, symbolic data, neural networks and learning devices, phylogeny and bioinformatics, new software systems for classification and data analysis, as well as applications in social, economic, biological, medical and other sciences. The book presents a long list of useful methods for classification, clustering and data analysis. By combining theoretical aspects with practical problems it is designed for researchers as well as for applied statisticians and will support the fast transfer of new methodological advances to a wide range of applications.
Customer Reviews:
Understand clusters and clustering deeply.......2006-08-19
This is a good and broad approach about cluster and clustering. It is better for those who want to understand deeply the theme. Is has lot of formulas and mathmatics.
different methods for finding clusters.......2005-01-13
The book has a nice treatment of the problem of finding, in some sense, clusters in data. Several papers point out that there is often some subjectivity here, as to which data sits in a particular cluster. Fuzziness in the boundary of a cluster. It can depend on what your underlying model is.
Possibly of interest to some is work on high dimensionality data, and trying to find clusters in these. Even visualisations might be non-trivial.
The book has value in letting you see a variety of ideas for finding clusters. Perhaps some of these might prove germane to your research.
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Often considered more as an art than a science, the field of clustering has been dominated by learning through examples and by techniques chosen almost through trial-and-error. Even the most popular clustering methods--K-Means for partitioning the data set and Ward's method for hierarchical clustering--have lacked the theoretical attention that would establish a firm relationship between the two methods and relevant interpretation aids. Rather than the traditional set of ad hoc techniques, Clustering for Data Mining: A Data Recovery Approach presents a theory that not only closes gaps in K-Means and Ward methods, but also extends them into areas of current interest, such as clustering mixed scale data and incomplete clustering. The author suggests original methods for both cluster finding and cluster description, addresses related topics such as principal component analysis, contingency measures, and data visualization, and includes nearly 60 computational examples covering all stages of clustering, from data pre-processing to cluster validation and results interpretation. This author's unique attention to data recovery methods, theory-based advice, pre- and post-processing issues that are beyond the scope of most texts, and clear, practical instructions for real-world data mining make this book ideally suited for virtually all purposes: for teaching, for self-study, and for professional reference.
Customer Reviews:
Very USEFUL.......2005-09-10
This book gives a smooth, motivated and example-rich
introduction to clustering, which is innovative in many aspects.
Answers to important questions that are very rarely addressed if
addressed at all, are provided.
Examples:
(a) what to do if the user has no idea of the number
of clusters and/or their location - use what is called intelligent k-means;
(b) what to do if the data contain both numeric and categorical
features - use what is called three-step standardization procedure;
(c) how to catch anomalous patterns, (d) how to validate clusters, etc.
Some of these may be subject to criticism, however some motivation is always
supplied, and the results are always reproducible thus testable.
The book introduces a number
of non-conventional cluster interpretation aids derived from a data
geometry view accepted by the author and based on what is referred
the contribution weights - basically showing those elements of cluster
structures that distinguish clusters from the rest. These contribution
weights, applied to categorical data, appear to be highly compatible
with what statisticians such as A. Quetelet and K. Pearson were developing
in the past couple of centuries, which is a highly original and welcome
development. The book reviews a rich set of approaches being accumulated
in such hot areas as text mining and bioinformatics, and shows that
clustering is not just a set of naive methods for data processing but
forms an evolving area of data science.
I adopted the book as a text for my courses in data mining for bachelor
and master degrees.
Clusters of Data, Not Micro Computer Clusters.......2005-06-03
First, understand that the type of clustering being discussed in this book is the statistical technique of finding clusters of data in a collection, where the collection is typically a database. This is not about clustered micro computers being used to work on big computational tasks as though it is a supercomputer.
Clusters of customers is a key area in data mining and knowledge discovery. You are usually trying to find groups of people with similar buying patterns but not necessarily identical. For instance if you have a group of people that have purchased a book on PHP, you might want to try to sell them a book on MySQL, or Apache, or Linnux. These programs fit together, but are not identical. Still the customer who purchased the PHP book is more likely to want a MySQL book than he is to want an audio CD of a murder mystery.
In this book, two of the most popular clustering techniques, K-Means and Ward's Method are presented. They are presented for a reader interested in the technical aspects of data mining as a theoretician or a practitioner. It is intended (the author says) that the material be useful to a reader with no mathematical background beyond high school. But the author also says, it might be of help if the reader is acquainted with basic notions of calculus, statistics, matrix algebra, graph theory and logic. (The author went to a different high school than I).
Clustering is described in this book to be used in a wide variety of applications, most of which are oriented to discovering social patterns, biological taxonomies, machine learning, etc. The book discusses the various techniques that have been developed and gives examples where they have been used in a wide variety of applications.
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