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Networking Considerations for Clustered Servers

Overview Reliable, low-cost switches can enhance the network performance of Intel processor-based Dell PowerEdge servers in high-availability failover cluster and high performance computing (HPC) cluster environments. This white paper provides guidelines that help IT managers choose the most effective network switches for their cluster interconnects. Web content delivery is particularly well suited to loosely coupled HPC clusters. For Web servers, the equivalent of the master node a server load-balancing (SLB) network switch.

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Publisher	Dell Computer	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	November 2003	Downloads	41
Format	White Papers
Topics	Switching, High Performance Computing

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