Network Login discuss

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:10:55PM +0000, Tony Dietrich wrote:
> No, thats not clustering. Period.  Clustering means actually sharing the 
> processing power of the clustered machines for specific processing tasks.

That's not true, "period".

"Cluster" is a much more general term than that, and while one type of
cluster is a high-performance CPU sharing system, that's not the only
possible type. Basically, a cluster is a set of generally-similar computers
which are connected in some way and can work together. You can have a
cluster of web servers. You can have a cluster of fault-tolerant
fileservers. Even just a bunch of machines in a lab that have a common file
store can, completely correctly, be called a cluster.


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