clustering

[Joel Dudley]

Sorry for the lack of info.  Clustered Web serving and load balancing.

- Joel
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Roark" <rod@sunsetsystems.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: clustering


> A clustering solution... for what problem?
> 
> The answer to your question lies in the details of what are the units of
> work to be run on each machine, how long they will tend to take, and how
> much information has to be transmitted over the network as input and
> output for each.  There's no pat answer.
> 
> -- Rod
> 
> > Joel Dudley wrote:
> > 
> > I am thinking about a clustering solution here at work and I have
> > somequestions about hardware.  Is 100Mbit Cat5 sufficient for cluster
> > communication or do I need to go to fibre channel to really see some
> > benefits.  Anyone have experience with this?  I am ignorant on the
> > matter.  Thanks.
> > 
> > - joel
> 
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