Re: New dad (again)..

George (jirka@5z.com)
Sat, 18 Apr 1998 12:26:18 -0700

> I fail understand what 'clustering' means. Is it as in 'Microsoft
> Cluster Server'? 'Microsoft Cluster Server' is (it says here) a
> technology in 'Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition' (wonder what
> that means) which allows a server to have a 'backup server', so that if
> the first server crashes, the second server can keep on (they share the
> same hard disk via SCSI). But Linux doesn't crash, so why should we have
> it? Well, perhaps Linus does...
>
> Anyway, what does clustering mean in this context?

microsoft never got the term "clustering" ... what they meant was server
redunduncy. clustering is putting more computers together on a fast bus
and have them run processes in parael while talking something like MPI
to get things to run fast

George

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