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Date:      Wed, 04 Mar 1998 18:30:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@minas-tirith.pol.ru>, "Ron G.Minnich" <Sarnoff.COM!rminnich@minas-tirith.pol.ru>, Tom <tom@sdf.com>, Niall Smart <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Subject:   Re: Cluster?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980304183037.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980304133513.4820B-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org>

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On 04-Mar-98 Robert Watson wrote:
 ....
> For clustered computational work, however, there are no debates about
> performance :).  Hiding clustering of network services as well as
> retaining reliability is a very interesting problem -- perhaps use of a
> NAT to do magic would help here?
We conputed about 10-25 times slower memory access for database engine type
work.  This was with specialized hardware, with about 800MB/Sec node-node
communications.

Intelectually challenging project, though...

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Sincerely Yours, 

Simon Shapiro
Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG                      Voice:   503.799.2313

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