Cluster Live 1.0

Cluster Live can do the following:
- Boots a cluster of diskless Thin Clients.
- Automatically loads a Web browser.
- Share workload between Thin Clients.
Why?
- No individual installations required.
- Fast deployment of centralised software over multiple computers.
- No need to access the hard disk of your existing system.
- Portable yet scalable infrastructure.
- Less spending on high end computer hardware such as hard drives, processors and memory.
Who can benefit from it?
- Public kiosk
- Internet cafe
- Home, Office and other intranet premises
- Training centre
- Government sectors, and other organisations requiring large deployment of dedicated applications.
- Ideal for academics in developing countries to make use of computers cost effectively.
- Open Source developers can freely create their own Cluster Live CDs.
How does it work?
- A server gets booted by a Cluster Live CD.
- The clients BIOS is configured to boot through the LAN by default.
- When the server has finished the bootup sequence, the client can be booted through the LAN.
What was it tested with?
- IBM Thinkpad T30 (CPU: Pentium 4 - 1GHz; RAM: 512MB)
- Virtual Machines (Software to allow running of multiple O.S. simultaneously)
- IDE CDRW (To rewrite the ISO image on to the CD for testing)
- A hub with several LAN cables connecting the infrastructure.
- Source built with Red Hat Fedora Core 3 Linux