[SunHELP] Clustering question

[Fletcher, Joe]

Can you narrow down the type of horsepower required? At the risk of speaking
sacrilege,
if it's primarily floating point then there are better things on the market
than SPARCs.
This presupposes you have a free hand in platform choice. Would a
distributed system based around a farm of Blades or Compaq DS10s do the job?
For heavy numerical work I tend to head straight for Alphas but that's just
my preference. 


-----Original Message-----
From: David McCarthy [mailto:dmccarthy at auvo.com]
Sent: 1 February 2001 18:11
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] Clustering question



We have a multi-server application in the works, but can't yet define 
horsepower requirements.  Can anyone briefly define what the load balancing 
difference is between running Sun's free Gridware, and using their Cluster 
Software.  I assume their Cluster Software is for non-stop, millisecond 
failover, mega-critical applications such as for banking or life-safety 
industries?   I didn't see a price for it on SunStore but assume it's for 
their high-end servers and expensive.  We are running Solaris 2.6 and are 
more focused on eeking out all the CPU juice across several machines (2 
Ultra 80's at the moment) possible from one application.

Thanks in advance!

David

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