Greetings, On 7/17/10, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 07/16/10 11:01 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > is your goal a "server" or "supercomputing"? all that tesla stuff sorta > says supercomputing, while HA etc says 'server'. > > supercomputer clusters eschew HA in favor of having many independent > compute units in a loose cluster that can tolerate any node dying by > simply reassigning its last work unit to another node. only the > persistent storage (usually a SAN or a clustered file system), and the > cluster controller needs conventional HA. > I was thinking more about a "personal supercomputer in a cloud" HA is a requirement for cloud. So I guess I have to think further about it. ideas welcome. Regards, Rajagopal