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Article: 
 How To Build a ComputeFarm
Subject:  JavaSpaces and ComputeFarm
Date:  2005-06-22 07:16:21
From:  cpurdy
Response to: JavaSpaces and ComputeFarm


> I have seen some clever stuff done on Coherence that stands up to serious production tests however I would still tend towards JavaSpaces for the high CPU count. For the lower end CPU count

Hi John,

This comment I definitely don't understand.

We have customers running data grids spread across hundreds of CPUs, managing terabytes of HA data. That's one giant data fabric, one giant "space", one highly resilient, 100% available, dynamically scalable, self-healing and lossless data grid, being managed in concert by hundreds of CPUs.

Not only that, but if we could find a demanding enough application, it would easily scale out to thousands of CPUs. Our resource load per node (e.g. threads, sockets, etc.) stays constant, regardless of the number of nodes. That's one of the ways that we achieve linear horizontal scale-out.

And we do all that without any single points of failure. Machines come, machines go, machines die, machines lock up, but the data grid not only keeps running, but it does so without losing any of the data that it is managing, even when machines are dying.

Peace.

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