Help deciding if a cluster will help my situation


i total noob please nice.

i engineer @ power plant , have reciently been working on getting complex modeling software working on servers have been purchased job. process memory , cpu intensive gathers substancial amount of data on network.

currently software package using has 3 separate applications use sql databases. have 3 quad core servers each running 1 of applications , 4th server running client software.

will achieve running 3 apps in cluster. can buy quad core server , update servers 16gb of ram. unsure of types of situations better clustering , arent. applications using not built clustering, hoping windows might smart enough balance load between 4 or 5 cpu's , can performance boost things sluggish right now. in advance!

hello rswing!

the circumstances have describe isn't related failover cluster scenario. failover clusters intend increase availability of application, "failing over" to different node whenever problem occurs.

it doesn't seem related load balancing scenario either, where incoming client connections are distributed nodes accoding pre-defined load-balancing rules.

it sounds more compute cluster scenario, processing of extremely heavy application can distributed among many cluster nodes. application should hpc-enabled. check out: http://www.microsoft.com/hpc/en/us/default.aspx


leonardo fagundes


Windows Server  >  High Availability (Clustering)



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