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To: Robert who wrote (21655)10/23/1999 2:04:00 PM
From: Stormweaver  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
Good point. I would say that clustering is not required which could greatly reduce synchronization latencies. Application components should be inherently distributed. The only problem comes in when we are talking about data storage. Most people think that all data must reside centrally and managed by one or two machines through the use of RAID and shared disks. The reality is that doesn't matter - just as long as all the data is somewhere in the node group and replicated. In EBAY's case they could have node groups that serve particular categories.

Interestingly, the price/performance TPC leader is a 4-way x86 box running NT + SQLServer (checkout www.tpc.org). I expect the new 8-ways to do extremely well.

Cheers
James
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