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.
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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.