Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:47:58 -0700 | From | Stephen Satchell <> | Subject | Re: Scaling noise |
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At 05:57 PM 9/7/2003 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: >That's not "a machine" that's ~1150 machines on a network. This business >of describing a bunch of boxes on a network as "a machine" is nonsense.
Then you haven't been keeping up with Open-source projects, or the literature. The development of virtual servers composed of clusters of Linux boxes on a private network appears to be a single machine to the outside world. Indeed, a highly scaled Web site using such a cluster is indistinguishable from one using a mainframe-class computer (which for the past 30 years have been networks of specialized processors working together).
The difference is that the bulk of the nodes are on a private network, not on a public one. Actually, the machines I have seen have been on a weave of networks, so that as data traverses the nodes you don't get a bottleneck effect.
It's a lot different than the Illiac IV I grew up with...
Satch
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