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As Microsoft's much-touted "Wolfpack" Cluster Server shows, clustering technology has arrived in the marketplace. Clustering is now a strategic direction for Microsoft, Compaq, IBM, Sun, DEC, Novell, and every other large computer company – and their products are rolling out now. This comprehensive, highly-readable guide helps you make sense of clustering in all its forms, not just a single company's offering. Gregory Pfister – one of the world's most respected experts on clustering technology – delivers all the information you need to make critical strategic decisions. He introduces the primary hardware and software technologies involved in clusters, and shows why they have become popular – and will become increasingly important. He presents the background that system planners, purchasers, designers and architects need to make effective use of clustering. He compares different types of clusters and the workloads they are best used for. He presents a detailed comparison of clusters with symmetric multiprocessing -- demonstrating major differences that are often "papered over." The book contains extensive new coverage of availability issues, as well as detailed coverage of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA), the technology at the heart of new offerings from Sequent, HP, Pyramid, NCR and others. "Pfister is a prophet with an attitude..." – Norris Parker Smith, HPCWire.

Table of Contents:
I. WHAT ARE CLUSTERS, AND WHY USE THEM? 1. Introduction. Working Harder. Working Smarter. Getting Help. The Road to Lowly Parallel Processing. A Neglected Paradigm. What is to Come. 2. Examples. Beer & Subpoenas. Serving the Web. The Farm. Fermilab. Other Compute Clusters. Full System Clusters. Cluster Software Products. Basic (Availability) Clusters. Not the End. 3. Why Clusters? The Standard Litany. Why Now? Why Not Now? Commercial Node Performance. The Need for High Availability. 4. Definition, Distinctions, and Initial Comparisons. Definition. Distinction from Parallel Systems. Distinctions from Distributed Systems. Concerning "Single System Image." Other Comparisons. Reactions. II. HARDWARE. 5. A Cluster Bestiary. Exposed vs. Enclosed. "Glass-House" vs. "Campus-Wide" Cluster. Cluster Hardware Structures. Communication Requirements. Cluster Acceleration Techniques. 6. Symmetric Multiprocessors. What is an SMP? What is a Cache, and Why Is It Necessary? Memory Contention. Cache Coherence. Sequential and Other Consistencies. Input/Output. Summary. 7. NUMA and Friends. UMA, NUMA, NORMA, and CC-NUMA. How CC-NUMA Works. The "N" in CC-NUMA. Software Implications. Other CC-NUMA Implications. Is "NUMA" Inevitable? Great Big CC-NUMA. Simple COMA. III. SOFTWARE. 8. Workloads. Why Discuss Workloads? Serial: Throughput. Parallel. Amdahl's Law. The Point of All This. 9. Basic Programming Models and Issues. What is a Programming Model? The Sample Problem. Uniprocessor. Shared Memory. Message-Passing. CC-NUMA. SIMD and All That. Importance. 10. Commercial Programming Models. Small N vs. Large N. Small N Programming Models. Large-N I/O Programming Models. Large-N Processor-Memory Models. Shared Disk or not Shared Disk? 11. Single System Image. Single System Image Boundaries. Single System Image Levels. The Application and Subsystem Levels. The Operating System Kernel Levels. Hardware Levels. SSI and System Management. IV. SYSTEMS. 12. High Availability. What Does "High Availability" Mean? The Basic Idea: Failover. Resources. Failing Over Data. Failing Over Communications. Towards Instant Failover. Failover to Where? Lock Data Reconstruction. Heartbeats, Events, and Failover Processing. System Structure. Related Issues. 13. Symmetric Multiprocessors, "NUMA," and Clusters. Preliminaries. Performance. Cost. High Availability. Other Issues. Partitioning. Conclusion. 14. Why We Need the Concept of Cluster. Benchmarks. Development Directions. Confusion of Issues. The Lure of Large Numbers. 15. Conclusion. Cluster Operating Systems. Exploitation. Standards. Software Pricing. What About 2010?. Coda: The End of Parallel Computer Architecture. Annotated Bibliography. Index. About the Author.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780138997090
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Prentice Hall
  • Edition: 2 ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 794 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0138997098
  • Publisher Date: 24 Dec 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 608
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Width: 228 mm


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