If there are failures, they can be routed around so the machine is still available to users. Also included in the $290m government contract is a third, smaller computer - a comparatively ordinary cluster of 944 x335servers and 32 x345 machines.
A number of universities and private companies are working on micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), which are sensors and micro-machines that can collect data from the physical world. McLurkin's robots are programmed to cluster, disperse, follow...
Fujitsu's Super Combined Cluster at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research reached 8.7 teraflops. But some jobs aren't amenable to cluster approach - one being decryption of coded communications.
Multiple physical systems may be combined into a pool of virtual resources, allowing virtual machines to be moved from one physical resource to another, enabling greater flexibility of systems. Key to this is a link-up with Symantec's Veritas...
With virtualisation, software runs on a virtual layer called a hypervisor rather than on the traditional foundation, a physical machine. That separation lets many operating systems be shoehorned onto a single server for greater efficiency, and...
The first is in management software, where Lees said Microsoft has an edge by having software that not only can manage virtual machines, but also can handle physical servers, as well as applications running within a virtual machine.