Automatic or manual failover is supported to cater for unplanned or planned downtime for any particular server. In order to provide scalability from commodity-class servers it is necessary to deploy a large number of nodes and to provide load...
High-performance computing clusters are becoming more popular at companies and institutions such as universities, because they have the ability to deliver large amounts of computing power for a relatively low price.
The new PowerEdge 3250, first shown last April, is designed to use the Madison Itanium 2 in a 3-inch-high, rack-mount server designed for a specific application in high-performance computing clusters, the company said.
CGG's newest server purchases, to be installed in clusters in the US, Canada, France, Kuala Lumpur and the UK, will join several other CGG Dell clusters, including a 3,000 node cluster and a 512 node Dell server cluster, Dell said.
Car companies and drug companies are among the early users of such clusters, he said, noting that Microsoft has a cluster internally that its treasury uses to evaluate the company's vast investment portfolio.
This brings the number of acute trusts using Pacs in the London and southern clusters to 51, as 18 sites in the clusters already had Pacs in place. The majority of Pacs deployments have been in these two clusters - only nine deployments out of 42...