From: John P. Looney (jplooney-ilug at domain online.ie)
Date: Fri 18 Feb 2000 - 15:57:03 GMT
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 03:12:07PM +0000, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> With all the talk of Sun E10k's, I feel i have to mention Tru64
> clustering and tandem kit.
>
> Firstly: The E10K is not a HA setup. It's a parallel machine. It's far
> more suited to computing than HA.
True, but you can cluster in the box. You can say "Those 8 motherboards
are one 32 CPU system, and those 8 motherboards are the other half of the
cluster". You then get Oracle PDB (parallel database), and if one part of
the E10K gets a fault, it'll reboot the OS on that virtual machine. Oracle
will continue along slowly for five/ten minutes, at half-speed, till the
rest of it comes back up.
It's only application level clustering, but still, not bad.
Kate
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