On 2005-05-21T09:29:01, Robert Wipfel <rawipfel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > outside looking in, is web services an! d grid. Returning to the > reality of many vendor's enterprise* business, the suitespot for h/a > clusters still seems to be somewhere around ~8 dual-CPU nodes with > many customers deploying multiple similar clusters. Nodes are never in > multiple clusters at once, rather, individual nodes are members of a > cluster and that cluster might be a member of a cluster of clusters. A single node must be big enough to support sane load balancing; ie, big enough to run at least one (or more) "whole" resource entities / jobs. That is the breaking point after which it is more sensible to deploy more nodes - with looser coupling - than making a single node / SSI component larger, because decoupled operation means less complexity for fault isolation. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx> -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster