Acknowledgements

This project is dedicated to those teachers that said a cluster was a crazy idea and couldn’t be made at school or anywhere, that sys admins should let a “technician” repair their hardware, to those that underestimated my skills and project, and finally to those that were against doing this collaborative project involving a sysadmin and programmer.

I turned what some considered stupid or impossible things into goals and facts.

Thanks to the teachers who believed in us and gave us a chance to make true this project. It wouldn’t have ever been possible for this project to be done if it wasn’t by you.

Thanks to the teachers that are whiling and still like learning, value real work and do things well and the right way.

Special thanks to Pilar for empowering the idea of the project, helping and being interested from the beginning to the end.

Special thanks to Modesto for always making us laugh and enjoy his classes and staying in contact.

Finally special thanks to Jose Luis for being the best sysadmin I know. Taught me tons of things that were used in this project, from virtualization architectures to basic commands. Also for showing me a system running Proxmox, talking to me about Sphinx and the daisy chain concept of SAS cables, that’s where I got all the motivation from to learn all I know from this last 3 months and put it in a real project.

With love for Modesto, Pilar and Jose Luis.

Efren Garcia Ferez