Week 12: Clusters
- Lecture notes:
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Lecture slides
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- Supplemental notes:
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How long do hard drives actually live for?,
by Sebastian Anthony, ExtremeTech, November 12, 2013.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/19/73910_04TCstratus_1.html
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Article on the Stratus ftServer W Series 4300; an example of a
fault-tolerant architecture offering hot failover.
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Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) home
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Load-Balancing Internet Servers,
IBM International Technical Support Organization,
December 1997
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interview: Dan Pritchett on Architecture at eBay
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The eBay architecture, November 29, 2006
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SD Forum 2006 slide presentation by Randy Shoup and Dan Pritchett of eBay.
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EBay Architecture
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Todd Hoff's article in High Scalability
- Buzzwords:
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fault tolerance, cluster, single system image, availability, failover,
cold/warm/hot failover, multi-directional failover, cascading failover,
RAID, shared disk, shared nothing, heartbeat, load balancing.