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To: pgerassi who wrote (66133)12/23/2001 8:26:22 AM
From: fyodor_Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Pete: Actually, many of those new mainframe systems use clusters within.

What happens if a CPU dies in an x86 cluster? What happens if a disk dies?

You cannot tell me that there's no reason why IBM, Sun and now Intel are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop these features [hotswappable processors, memory and disks, etc].

-fyo