From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <65f6ca1c3e00b87d7582efa6b5af9f55@plan9.ucalgary.ca> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] nice hardware for a cpu server From: andrey mirtchovski In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:46:58 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cb8e3bea-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > There can be a intra-organization grid. But what it differs > from a cluster? A cluster generally assumes almost identical hardware, software and capabilities. Intra-organizational resource sharing is considered an example of Meta/Distributed Computing (metacomputing was the buzzword of choice after Distributed Computing's demise and before the rise of Grids), while Grid Computing is resource sharing across administrative domains... As for oxen vs. chickens -- that's a pretty tough one to decide considering that today's commodity chicken can pull more than the average ox. Or at least that's the impression one gets out of looking at the SPEC site... Maybe chicken vs fleas is better, throwing in a side note about the extinction of the Ox and how it affected the world... Andrey PS: I'm too young to have cared about computers much when War Games came out, but I've seen the pictures of the CM5 at LANL -- an Ox composed of 64000 chickens :)