Dealing in Clusterfication

Audience: Networkers
Technical Level: Deep Geek

The session will deal in transaction clustering primarily for serving web pages. I will discuss the initial stages of what building a cluster is supposed to accomplish and how to determine organizational need. We will look at deciding on an operating system, and what packages are available to ease the transition. I will explain in broad terms, using the Linux Virtual Server project as an example, how to design and implement a cluster. I will go into detail about load balancing, redundancy and fault tolerance. We will discuss the administrative overhead associated with maintaining data in parity on the cluster and give examples on how this might be accomplished. I will give live demo of a functioning cluster showing how it load balances and imitate a failure to show redundancy. I will briefly describe how other services might be applied to the cluster model. There will be time at the end to take questions… or eat pie.

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Daniel Nagy
Sys Admin, Legal Information Institute
Cornell Law School

About Elmer Masters

Elmer R. Masters is the Director of Technology at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (www.cali.org) where he works on interesting projects involving technology and legal education like eLangdell, Classcaster, Lawbooks, QuizWright, and the CALI website. He has over 30 years of experience building tech tools for legal education and systems for accessing law and legal materials on the Internet. He is the admin of the Teknoids mailing list (www.teknoids.net) and has been blogging about legal education, law, and technology for over 20 years (www.symphora.com). He has a JD from Syracuse University College of Law and was employed by Syracuse, Cornell Law School, and Emory University School of Law before joining CALI in 2003. Elmer has presented at the CALI Conference for Law School Computing (where he organizes the program), the AALL and AALS Annual Meetings, Law Via The Internet, and other conferences, symposia, and workshops on topics ranging from IT management in law schools to building open access court reporting systems to information architecture design and implementation in law.
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