Re: Scaling noise

Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03T20:24:13Z

> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:21:47AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> I've seen people use big machines for clusterable things, which I think
>> is a waste of money, but the cost of the machine compared to the cost
>> of admin (vs multiple machines) may have come down to the point where
>> it's worth it now. You get implicit "cluster" load balancing done in a
>> transparent way by the OS on NUMA boxes.
>
> Doesn't SSI clustering do something similar (without the effency of the
> interconnections though)?

Yes ... *if* someone had a implementation that worked well and was
maintainable ;-)

M.