http://www.electric-cloud.com/blog/2009/08/10/are-clusters-a-dying-technology/ This is your source for private development cloud best practices and technical tips and tricks for Electric Cloud solutions Thu, 03 May 2012 01:47:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.electric-cloud.com/blog/2009/08/10/are-clusters-a-dying-technology/#comment-62 Eric Melski Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:08:45 +0000 http://blog.electric-cloud.com/?p=495#comment-62 @RobH: That's an excellent point, Rob. Not only would users be able to continue to run builds, but that cluster node could even die in the middle of a build-in-progress and users would never even notice — the build would just carry on, assigning work to the remaining nodes. @RobH: That’s an excellent point, Rob. Not only would users be able to continue to run builds, but that cluster node could even die in the middle of a build-in-progress and users would never even notice — the build would just carry on, assigning work to the remaining nodes.

]]> http://www.electric-cloud.com/blog/2009/08/10/are-clusters-a-dying-technology/#comment-61 RobH Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:37:33 +0000 http://blog.electric-cloud.com/?p=495#comment-61 Eric, I agree with your 3 reasons and would add a forth: Robustness. What happens when your 8-core desktop goes belly up and how long will it take IT to get it up and running again? Conversely, what happens when 1 of your 5 machines in the cluster goes off line? With a tool like Accelerator, you can still execute builds while IT fixes the offline server and your users may not even realize that a server was down. Eric, I agree with your 3 reasons and would add a forth: Robustness. What happens when your 8-core desktop goes belly up and how long will it take IT to get it up and running again? Conversely, what happens when 1 of your 5 machines in the cluster goes off line? With a tool like Accelerator, you can still execute builds while IT fixes the offline server and your users may not even realize that a server was down.

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