Is there a limit to the number of Xserves that can be hooked together?
If not hmmmm could you imagine the Possibilities??
More Power GRUNT GRUNT
Theoretically, one could continue to add nodes limited only by budget.
(Distributed.net, SETI@Home and Folding@Home each prove 100,000+ node distributed work is possible)
Practically, there might be diminishing returns in the additional machines as the physical footprint extended beyond buildings or lag from distant remote machines began to interfere in cluster performance.
It strikes me that there must be a price/performance sweet spot for the # of nodes for certain projects. Might depend on what you were expecting the cluster to do.
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Originally posted by rpm16601
Is there a limit to the number of Xserves that can be hooked together?
If not hmmmm could you imagine the Possibilities??
More Power GRUNT GRUNT
Theoretically, one could continue to add nodes limited only by budget.
(Distributed.net, SETI@Home and Folding@Home each prove 100,000+ node distributed work is possible)
Practically, there might be diminishing returns in the additional machines as the physical footprint extended beyond buildings or lag from distant remote machines began to interfere in cluster performance.
It strikes me that there must be a price/performance sweet spot for the # of nodes for certain projects. Might depend on what you were expecting the cluster to do.
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