Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud
by shykes on Thursday April 07, 2011 @12:16AM
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No, that's the theoretical beauty of aggregation. If black friday causes a 10x spike in transactions, a larger system won't help you.
Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud
by riobard on Thursday April 07, 2011 @10:27AM
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This kind of edge cases will happen much more frequently when you have multiple smaller systems. A larger system helps you by balancing out those. Will a larger system run out of resources if everyone requests it at the same time? Of course it will, but the likelihood will be statistically smaller than smaller systems.
Statistically, adding multiple standard derivations yield a smaller value than their sum.