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Week 12: Clusters

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Supplemental notes:

How long do hard drives actually live for?, by Sebastian Anthony, ExtremeTech, November 12, 2013.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/19/73910_04TCstratus_1.html: Article on the Stratus ftServer W Series 4300; an example of a fault-tolerant architecture offering hot failover.
Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) home
Load-Balancing Internet Servers, IBM International Technical Support Organization, December 1997
interview: Dan Pritchett on Architecture at eBay
The eBay architecture, November 29, 2006: SD Forum 2006 slide presentation by Randy Shoup and Dan Pritchett of eBay.
EBay Architecture: Todd Hoff's article in High Scalability
Buzzwords:: 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.

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Week 12: Clusters

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