On Jun 28, 2013, at 1:16, Jonathan Barber <jonathan.bar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you think about services rather than systems, and include all of the > supporting systems required for a cluster to operate, the number of different > "nodes" increases. I believe current practice in large scale webshops is to > dedicate machines to single services, so for them system == service. That is often the case. This is especially true in auto scaled environments where services and nodes light up bases on load and also allows you to degrade gracefully or a service has some issues. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
