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- Achieving High Performance at Low Cost: The Dual Core Commodity Cluster Advantage
- Advances in clustering technology have redefined the price to performance curve for many High Performance Computing HPC application areas. The use of specialized high speed interconnects and fast commodity processors have pushed the envelope to where it is today. Not all applications need this level of hardware and cost to...
- Tags: Dual-core, Clustering, High-performance, Seagrove
- White papers 2006-06-01
- IBCP Leverages Scali Clustering Technology to Defeat Debilitating Diseases
- The Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Proteines IBCP, located in Lyon France, is a research organization that focuses on understanding the sequence, structure and function of protein. Researching protein structure requires an enormous amount of data and compute power. IBCP currently has 2.6 TB data stored on its cluster....
- Tags: Protein, Clustering, High-performance, IBCP, Leadership, Management
- Case studies
- SolutionBase: Introduction to Virtual Host Clustering with Virtual Server 2005 R2
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.Clustering is a technology used when you want to increasethe availability of a server, service or application so it doesn't become asingle point of failure. For example, if you have a critical server running onyour network, it can be placed in a...
- Tags: Servers, Microsoft Windows, Server virtualization, Operating systems, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Microsoft Virtual Server, Diana Huggins, server, clustering, cluster, operating system, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Technical articles 2007-05-31
- eCluster NT (exe)
- The eCluster Global Clustering Technology delivers both Layer 3 and Layer 7 server load balancing and fail-safe capability for UNIX, including BSD, SUN, LINUX, and Windows NT/2000/3003, with multiple algorithms and rules. It delivers high availability, redundancy, scalability, security with SSL, and flexibility. eCluster is able to detect server load...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Microsoft Windows NT, Clustering, eCluster Global Clustering Technology, eCluster, Internet, Network Technology, UNIX, Servers, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2004-09-23
- Mainstream Technologies Slashes IT Costs and Maintenance With Self-Managing Database and Scalable Application Clusters
- As a full-service information technology development and hosting company, Mainstream Technologies has built its business by helping customers leverage and manage IT solutions to fuel corporate growth. Mainstream Technologies provides a number of services to its customers, including custom application development, consulting, and contract programming. With these objectives in mind,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Mainstream Technologies, Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- Network Load Balancing Technical Overview
- Network Load Balancing, a clustering technology included in the Windows® 2000 Advanced Server and Datacenter Server operating systems, enhances the scalability and availability of mission-critical, TCP/IP-based services, such as Web, Terminal Services, virtual private networking, and streaming media servers. The unique and fully distributed architecture of Network Load Balancing enables...
- Tags: Network Load Balancing, Network, Clustering, Failover, Network Administration, Networking
- White papers
- High-Availability ERP Platform at Fripa
- Papierfabrik Albert Friedrich KG fripa is a paper manufacturing and processing company based in Miltenberg, Germany. Since fripa's production site is in operation around the clock nearly 365 days a year, the availability of its SSA Baan ERP system is absolutely crucial. The need to have a high-availability platform, together...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., ERP, Linux, Utility Computing, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies
- Get IT Done: Lay the foundation for long-distance clustering
- Clustering servers together increases the scalability and availability of networked resources. The bad part about clustering, though, is that, traditionally, clustered servers had to be very close to each other—often in the same room next to each other.But a new clustering technology is slowly starting to emerge: long-distance clustering. Long-distance...
- Tags: Brien M. Posey MCSE, cluster, clustering, Get IT Done, heartbeat, long-distance clustering, network, server
- Technical articles 2003-05-01
- ProMOS Technologies Achieves High Reliability and Availability With Clustering Technology
- Founded in 1996, Taiwan-based ProMOS Technologies is a leading manufacturer of semiconductor memory solutions. ProMOS opened its third factory in 2006; doubling the number of 12-inch dynamic random access memory DRAM chips it could produce each month to 45,000. The challenge was to ensure its Manufacturing Execution System MES could...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Clustering, ProMOS Technology, Databases, Manufacturing, Storage, Semiconductors, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Hitachi's Visual Search can locate your image from a million others in less than a second
- It appears that Hitachi has developed and refined a search technology called Visual Search, which is able to locate images similar to a specified one from among millions of static images or video data. The time needed for such a complex and time-consuming feat? All of one...
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Information, Video, Image, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Understanding server load balancing
- Getting your servers up to optimal stability and reliability is the most important issue of network administrators. Load balancing is one method of achieving a higher degree of efficiency, and Deb Shinder helps you to understand this concept.Load balancing is a favorite buzzword (or in this case, buzz phrase)...
- Tags: Network technology, Servers, server load balancing, Deb Shinder, load balancing, server
- Technical articles 2001-09-11
- Payment Solution Expands Business With Help From OpenWay
- Capital OK Company Limited provides a range of personal term loans, revolving credit facilities, and credit cards to the Thai consumer market. The company wanted to establish flexible database platform to run pre-paid card application and provide fault-tolerant environment with high availability and security to ensure transactions are executed safely...
- Tags: Payment, Fault-tolerance, Oracle Corp., High Availability, Payment Solution, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- BT Group Plc Reduces Recovery Time From Up to 20 Minutes to Less Than One Minute
- As one of Europe's leading communications companies, BT Group plc has a mission to help customers exploit the business opportunities that rapidly advancing communications technologies provide. For customers of its hosted and managed services, achieving the highest possible levels of availability for their database and applications is one of the...
- Tags: Recovery, Oracle Corp., Database Clustering, BT Group Plc., Databases, Blade Servers, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies
- Migrating a Local Microsoft Cluster to HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension EVA White Paper
- HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension EVA CLX EVA for Windows offers a superior way of protecting the applications against major disasters by combining Windows clustering technology with storage-based replication, in this case HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA. With CLX EVA one can create geographically dispersed clusters - meaning clusters with nodes...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Microsoft Corp., Utility Computing, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Increase reliability and performance of your Exchange-based email system with clustering
- E-mail is such a mission-critical task, chances are you can'tafford to have it down for a minute. You may also have so much e-mail trafficon your network that one lone server may not be able to handle all of the work.In either case, clustering can come in handy. Here are...
- Tags: Brien M. Posey MCSE, cluster, clustering, e-mail, network load balancing, performance, server
- Technical articles 2006-10-09
- PICC Life Insurance Ensures 24-Hour Availability for Core Business System
- Headquartered in Beijing, PICC Life Insurance Company Limited provides a range of life insurance products. The company wanted to select a stable, expandable, and high performing platform to run core business system. The challenge was to ensure that the solution features business logic processing at the front, middle, and back-end...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, PICC Life Insurance, Performance Management, Insurance, Financial Planning, Storage, Middleware, Databases, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- Windows clustering: Microsoft Cluster Service or network load balancing?
- Microsoft Cluster Service MSCS and network load balancing NLB can both help you address your high availability needs. They can even work together in some solutions. Get the lowdown on each technology, and see how they can cooperate.The first of my recent articles on Windows clustering prompted a member to...
- Tags: Network administration, NETWORKING, network, Carol Bailey, Microsoft Corp., Carol Bailey MCSE+I, clustering, Microsoft Windows 2000, server, Cluster Service, Microsoft Windows, network load balancing, Microsoft Cluster Service
- Technical articles 2002-11-07
- The mysteries of Linux clustering technology revealed
- Examine the different types of Linux clusters and see how the technology has evolved to the point that it can be a valuable asset for businesses.In the past, the idea of computer clustering technology was isolated to universities and NASA. That was then, and this is now. Thanks to Linux,...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Scott Lowe MCSE, master node, clustering, cluster, load balancing, Linux, Linux cluster
- Technical articles 2002-04-10
- Use bandwidth aggregation if you can't upgrade to a T-3
- FIOS and Cable bandwidth aggregation?How would you aggregate the bandwidth between two providers that don't know about each other? The FIOS and Cable providers would be providing you with different external address spaces. I can see balancing traffic originating inside, but I cannot see how you would be...
- Tags: bandwidth aggregation, BGP, T-3, fios, cable, bandwidth, netadm, software, pipe, IP, IP address
- Discussion threads 2006-06-29
- bandwidth
- bandwidthSeems like this website times out a lot...probably because it's busy these discussions are addicting but it seems like you guys need a fatter pipe (get your mind out of the gutter!) :)It's gotten terrible in the last weekThe number of times that I get a timeout trying to load...
- Tags: advancedgeek, clustering, feedback, Hugo
- Discussion threads 2005-03-01
