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| 1151682 | 2010-11-09 20:36:00 | Hey, thinking of installing Microsoft Server '08 and setting it up as a cluster on 8 or 9 PCs. Considering I've only read about what hardware components are needed, how do they actually run? Can it run any normal programs, or does it require everything to be programmed in a certain way? Are there any interesting things you can "play around" with on these servers, or is it pretty limited to running things like Folding@home? Edit: Perhaps a Parallel Virtual Machine? |
Cellux (15145) | ||
| 1151683 | 2010-11-09 20:54:00 | What are you hoping to achieve? You won't magically get 8 - 9 times the performance of a single machine if that's what you're expecting. You'll get failover redundancy, load-balancing, and some degree of parallel processing, though. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1151684 | 2010-11-09 21:06:00 | I understand that it won't be a major performance boost, I'm just interested in seeing how they run more then anything. | Cellux (15145) | ||
| 1151685 | 2010-11-09 21:37:00 | I believe it is a series of like server with a shared IP address to create fall over and load balancing. Its not really required unless you need an application up 24/7! |
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