On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:10:55PM +0000, Tony Dietrich wrote: > No, thats not clustering. Period. Clustering means actually sharing the > processing power of the clustered machines for specific processing tasks. That's not true, "period". "Cluster" is a much more general term than that, and while one type of cluster is a high-performance CPU sharing system, that's not the only possible type. Basically, a cluster is a set of generally-similar computers which are connected in some way and can work together. You can have a cluster of web servers. You can have a cluster of fault-tolerant fileservers. Even just a bunch of machines in a lab that have a common file store can, completely correctly, be called a cluster. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
