[ale] Distributed File Systems

[Vernard Martin]

> Never heard of the product either but AIX boxen do have a wicked clustering technology known as SP clustering.  Don't have any specifics to pass  on here but interested parties can go to ibm.com and search on SP.  FWIW the main unix page at ibm, www.rs6000.ibm.com has  section touting their Linux offerings (hust to keep this on topic).

I'm very familiar with the SP technology that IBM has been selling since the
mid 90s. Not too bad way back when I worked with it at Ga Tech. Supposedly
those machines are quite the rage for hosting e-commerce databases. And there
are few thumping huage ones such as the 512-node cluster at the Maui High
Performance Computing Center in Hawaii. But they are considered to be a 2nd
tier solution for doing number crunching which as far as I'm concerned is the
only real reason to get s supercomputing cluster. In the words of the late
Seymour Cray: "A supercomputer is a machine that turns a cpu bound problem 
into an I/O bound problem".

Vernard
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